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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases rashness, with mischance injustice with violence of enemies pride, with ruin cowardice, with oppression and rebellion, with slaughter.
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I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.
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Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
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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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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.
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The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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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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The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
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