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Thomas Hobbes

Government and Politics
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
4.1 · 45 votes · 96 reads
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Virtues
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
3.1 · 31 votes · 189 reads
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Various
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
3.4 · 58 votes · 91 reads
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Feelings
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
4.3 · 15 votes · 82 reads
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Society
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
3.4 · 33 votes · 17 reads
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Government and Politics
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
5.0 · 5 votes · 29 reads
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Feelings
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
5.0 · 50 votes · 9 reads
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Various
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
4.6 · 61 votes · 50 reads
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Thought and Reason
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
4.6 · 58 votes · 120 reads
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Society
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
3.9 · 16 votes · 15 reads
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Various
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
4.6 · 32 votes · 74 reads
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Government and Politics
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
4.6 · 39 votes · 55 reads
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Art and Culture
The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
5.0 · 12 votes · 171 reads
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Feelings
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
3.3 · 12 votes · 101 reads
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Society
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
4.4 · 35 votes · 148 reads
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Government and Politics
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
3.0 · 41 votes · 87 reads
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Society
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
4.1 · 40 votes · 137 reads
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Society
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
4.6 · 49 votes · 134 reads
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Thought and Reason
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
4.1 · 63 votes · 137 reads
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Art and Culture
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
4.8 · 24 votes · 51 reads
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Virtues
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
4.7 · 54 votes · 128 reads
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Society
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
3.4 · 47 votes · 169 reads
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Society
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
3.2 · 38 votes · 169 reads
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Nature
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
4.7 · 55 votes · 164 reads
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Government and Politics
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
5.0 · 27 votes · 107 reads
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Society
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
5.0 · 60 votes · 171 reads
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Society
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
4.9 · 18 votes · 167 reads
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Government and Politics
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
4.0 · 20 votes · 188 reads
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Society
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
4.3 · 25 votes · 187 reads
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Thought and Reason
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
3.1 · 31 votes · 15 reads
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Feelings
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
4.5 · 11 votes · 198 reads
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Art and Culture
Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
4.5 · 43 votes · 175 reads
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Various
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
3.1 · 26 votes · 131 reads
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Various
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
4.8 · 7 votes · 41 reads
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Time
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
4.1 · 37 votes · 133 reads
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Nature
We seldom report of having eaten too little.
4.5 · 41 votes · 48 reads
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Art and Culture
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
3.0 · 17 votes · 79 reads
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Government and Politics
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
3.9 · 15 votes · 93 reads
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Feelings
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
4.9 · 25 votes · 141 reads
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Government and Politics
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
3.8 · 16 votes · 86 reads
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