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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases rashness, with mischance injustice with violence of enemies pride, with ruin cowardice, with oppression and rebellion, with slaughter.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
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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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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
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Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
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