The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Knowledge is power.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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