Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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