The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESliberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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