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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
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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 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.
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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.
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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 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. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
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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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Covenants without swords are but words.
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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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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. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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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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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
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Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
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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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When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
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