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Political Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- 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…
- 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…
- Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are…
- Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
- Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
- To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
- Reason is the Soul of the Law.
- Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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