Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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War 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.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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