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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.
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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.
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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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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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It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
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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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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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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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