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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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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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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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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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