whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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