All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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