No man's error becomes his own Law; nor... by Thomas Hobbes | We Heart Quotes

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

- Thomas Hobbes

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Grave

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

- Thomas Hobbes

Horror

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

- Thomas Hobbes

Storms Future Present Past Mind

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

Conscience May Man

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

- Thomas Hobbes

Glory

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

- Thomas Hobbes

Competition

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

- Thomas Hobbes

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