Hell is truth seen too late.
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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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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