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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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This is that law of the Gospel whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
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To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves and the second, if we compare cities.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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