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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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And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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 oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.
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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
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And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
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For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
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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.
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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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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 from Death.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short
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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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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
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