Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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