TOP 10 Thomas Hobbes quotes

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Life is nasty, brutish, and short

9

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

8

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

7

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

6

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

5

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

4

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

3

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

2

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

1

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.