Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESCovenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Knowledge is power.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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