Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESPower simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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