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.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.