"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of……" — Thomas Hobbes
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; 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."
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Thomas Hobbes
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
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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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