Hell is truth seen too late. by Thomas Hobbes | We Heart Quotes

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Hell is truth seen too late.

- Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Right Men Man

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

- Thomas Hobbes

Error Man

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

- 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

The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

- Thomas Hobbes

Words Men Man

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

- 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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