Words are the money of fools.
From Thomas Hobbes
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
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, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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