Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESwhatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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