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Thomas Hobbes

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“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other...” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Time, and Industry, produce every day new knowledge.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For True and False are attributes of Speech, not of things. And where Speech in not, there is neither Truth nor Falshood.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some errour in reasoning, or some sudden force of the passions.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For it can never be that Warre shall preserve life, and Peace destroy it.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“in the nature of man, we find three principall 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.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For 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 Feare, no more than without Sense.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“to accuse, requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man onely.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The first branch, of which Rule, containeth the first, and Fundamentall Law of Nature; which is, 'To seek Peace, and follow it.'” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“And Beasts that have Deliberation must necessarily also have Will.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the price.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“And when all the world is overchargd with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre; which provideth for every man, by Victory, or Death.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For such Truth, as opposeth no man profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evill intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equall time, equally bestowes on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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