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Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

Thomas Hobbes
Past, Times Past, Prudence
Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes
Memories, Future, Past
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes
Past, Lust, Mind

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

Thomas Hobbes
Science, Past, Men
Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

Thomas Hobbes
Past, Men
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.96, 谷月社

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Thomas Hobbes
Past, Men, Expectations
Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.23, Broadview Press

Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

Thomas Hobbes
God, Intelligent, Past
Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.392, Broadview Press

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