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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.

Thomas Hobbes

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[In a state of nature] 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.

Thomas Hobbes

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The passion to be reckoned upon, is fear.

Thomas Hobbes

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Fear and I were born twins together.

Thomas Hobbes

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The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Thomas Hobbes

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

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