Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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