Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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