Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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 secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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