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Thomas Hobbes@thomas-hobbes Β· 1651
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
β Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 4 (1651)
17th Century