The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESCuriosity is the lust of the mind.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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.
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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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