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.
THOMAS HOBBESI often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Life is 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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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