Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESFor to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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 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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Knowledge is power.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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