whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
THOMAS HOBBESWhere 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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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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A great leap in the dark.
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