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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
For prudence, is but experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
For such is the nature of men, 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: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
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 (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them, that assault him by force, to take away his life; because he cannot be understood to aim thereby, at any good to himself (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Corporations may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
For a man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
True and false are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)
The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.... Reputation of power, is power (Thomas Hobbes Quotes)