Hence
From this place; away.
From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.
From this reason; as an inference or deduction.
From this source or origin.
To send away.
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Hence Quotations
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Hence Translations
hence in Afrikaans is hiervandaan
hence in Danish is herfra
hence in Dutch is hiervandaan, vanhier
hence in German is infolgedessen, daher, ab jetzt, daraus, deshalb
hence in Italian is per questo, indi, in consequenza
hence in Latin is hinc
hence in Portuguese is daqui
hence in Spanish is por tanto
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