Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
THOMAS HOBBESFor 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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