It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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