Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESLeisure is the mother of Philosophy.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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 secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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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 condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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