"For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is……" — Thomas Hobbes
"For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice."
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Thomas Hobbes
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
— R. D. Laing
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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood…
— Frank Sinatra
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism,…
— Martin Chemnitz
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Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
— Laura Schlessinger
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Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee…
— Michael Foley
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Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and…
— Brian Evenson
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines,…
— Lord Byron
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
— Frank Sinatra
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
— Oscar Wilde
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