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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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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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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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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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I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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