The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
THOMAS HOBBESEloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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