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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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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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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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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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