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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
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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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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome for he is still an enemy.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
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A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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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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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.
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The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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