Thomas Hobbes Quotes and Quotations
Curiosity is a lust of the mind. If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they. Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards, or menaces of torture. Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Give an inch, he'll take an ell. Leisure is the mother of philosophy. Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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