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• For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Equality, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Liberty, Foolish

  "The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition".

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• If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Witty, Book, Men

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• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, Religion, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.110, Broadview Press

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• And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Order, Causes

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.146, Broadview Press

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• There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, Mind, Desire

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Fundamentals, Firsts

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.148, eKitap Projesi

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• The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Atheism, Purpose

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.473, Cambridge University Press

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• It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Pace, Ends

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• Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Madness, Mere

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Power, Long, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.209

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• Nature itself cannot err

  Thomas Hobbes

  Leviathan Part I, Chapter

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• A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Judging, May

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Spring, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

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• A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.151, eKitap Projesi

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• and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Greater

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.263, Xist Publishing

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• Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

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  Men, Curiosity, Atheism

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.122, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, War, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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• To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Cities, Citizens

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Inspirational, Despair, Opinion

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hateful, Obligation

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• Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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  Science, Reality, Facts

  1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.

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• So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Crime

  Thomas Hobbes (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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