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.
THOMAS HOBBESwhatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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 to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Knowledge is power.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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