For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESWords are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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 not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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