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.
THOMAS HOBBESFear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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 many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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