Thomas Hobbes Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Let a man, as most men do, rate themselves at the highest value they can, yet their true value is no more than it is esteemed by others.	Honor
2	Grief for the discovery of some defect of ability is shame, or the passion that discovereth itself in blushing, and consisteth in the apprehension of something dishonourable; and in young men is a sign of the love of good reputation, and commendable: in	Honor
3	Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, andcreate a monster they call destiny.	Destiny
4	The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.	Absurd
5	The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.	Absurd
6	Words are the counters of wise man, and the money of fools.	Books
7	For after the object is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it . . . Imagination, therefore, is nothing but decaying sense.	Creativity
8	Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.	Death
9	No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.	Error
10	Covenants without swords are but words.	Force

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