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Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

- Thomas Hobbes

Self-awareness

"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."

- Thomas Hobbes

Strength

"For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels."

- Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

"They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government."

- Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy