For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESNow I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Knowledge is power.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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