For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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