Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
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“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
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“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
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“Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.”
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“Words are the money of fools.”
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“The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.”
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“So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.”
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“Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.”
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“I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.”
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“Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?”