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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.
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