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Law Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
- To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice…
- Reason is the Soul of the Law.
- No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
- It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
- The law is the public conscience.
- The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
- Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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