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A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.
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 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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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion but has only agreater tincture of choler
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
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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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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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Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
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But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
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