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• Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Faith, Men, Giving

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes, 1651.

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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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• 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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• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life Lesson, Philosophical, Lust

  "Very Happy to Be Here!". Book by Edward Pavlik, p.137, December 1, 2006.

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• So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Children, Men, Reflection

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.95, Broadview Press

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• The world is governed by opinion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Politics, World, Opinion

  Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Nature itself cannot err

  Thomas Hobbes

  Leviathan Part I, Chapter

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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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• Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Times Past, Prudence

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

  Thomas Hobbes

  People, Income, Economy

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Curiosity, Atheism

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

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Reality, Facts

  1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.

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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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• Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, War, Men

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

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