And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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A great leap in the dark.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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