For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESAnd if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is power.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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