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The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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So that every Crime is a sinne but not every sinne a Crime.
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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
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