Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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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 source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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