The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Boredom is the desire for desires.
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Words are the money of fools.
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
To punish a man because we infer from his conduct that he would have committed a crime if he could, is preemptive imprisonment and not judicial punishment.
Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Hell is truth seen too late.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Nature has made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable.
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: for they see their own wit at hand, and other men’s at a distance.
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.
As men, for the attaining of any end, will not be forced to use means which they know cannot effect it, so to the attaining of any knowledge they will not be prohibited the use of any means which they shall think probably conduce thereto.
He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind.
The cause of war is desire for glory and the cause of all desire is death.
The condition of man, or state of nature, is a war of all against all; and he that is not compelled to follow reason, is led to do ill, led to do evil things.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire for power after power that ceaseth only in death.
Peace is not mere absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
When men reason, there is nothing so ridiculous that it seems not true when a great number of men practice it.
The condition of man…is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
When men reason, there is nothing so absurd, that it does not seem true, to someone.
A free man is he that hath by right of nature the power to do whatsoever he will, without being hindered by anything except by the laws of nature.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in a condition which is called war.
What is the nature of reason and what is its use? To live well even in the worst times.
Desire of ease and sensual delight disposeth men to obey a common power.
The weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either desiring his blood or some way his service for their own benefit.
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