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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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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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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 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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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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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
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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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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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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome for he is still an enemy.
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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This I know God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.
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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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