Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESThe light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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