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And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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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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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves and the second, if we compare cities.
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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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The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
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For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
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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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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
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A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
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For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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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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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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