For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESliberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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