Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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A great leap in the dark.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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