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.
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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but 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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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A great leap in the dark.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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