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.
THOMAS HOBBESNor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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