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Men Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
- A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
- A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do…
- Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
- Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
- Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life,…
- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a…
- To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice…
- 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…
- Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
- A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
- 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…
- If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
- It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
- By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words,…
- And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations…
- If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
- If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
- 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,…
- The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
- Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
- The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without…
- 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.
- The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their…
- 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…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle