It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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