For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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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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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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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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