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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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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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So that every Crime is a sinne but not every sinne a Crime.
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
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The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.
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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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