As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBES
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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 secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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