The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESKnowledge is power.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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A great leap in the dark.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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