The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
THOMAS HOBBESNo 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Knowledge is power.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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