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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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 think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
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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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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
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And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
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The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
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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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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
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The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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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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Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
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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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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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