Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESWords are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Whatsoever 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.
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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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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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