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.
THOMAS HOBBESA man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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