Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Where 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.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Knowledge is power.
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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 first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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