Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas HobbesWisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
Thomas HobbesTo this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas HobbesA democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.
Thomas Hobbes