Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESWhatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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