Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Knowledge is power.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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