I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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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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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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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