Thomas Hobbes

Westport,Wiltshire

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Thomas Hobbes

Westport,Wiltshire

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11 November 2014

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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11 November 2014

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.

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11 November 2014

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

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11 November 2014

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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11 November 2014

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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11 November 2014

As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

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11 November 2014

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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11 November 2014

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

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11 November 2014

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

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11 November 2014

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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