For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESIt’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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