It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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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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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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