The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESGod put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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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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