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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases rashness, with mischance injustice with violence of enemies pride, with ruin cowardice, with oppression and rebellion, with slaughter.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
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But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.
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The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
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The law is the public conscience.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
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Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
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