Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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