Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
