Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBESWar consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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