The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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A great leap in the dark.
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