Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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  • Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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  • The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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  • Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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  • Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
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  • Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
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  • All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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  • society reflects not the perfection of God as much as the failings of a rather selfish human nature.
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