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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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 end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion but has only agreater tincture of choler
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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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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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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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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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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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