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.
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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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