For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESFor to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESIt’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBESThe understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESSome men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESThe secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
THOMAS HOBBESliberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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.
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