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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity Reason is the pace Encrease of Science, the way and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.
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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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How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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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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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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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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Nature itself cannot err
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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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The law is the public conscience.
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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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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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It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
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