It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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