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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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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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