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• Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Thinking, Reflection

  "Elements of Law, Natural and Political".

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• El elogio de los autores antiguos no procede de la reverencia a los muertos, sino de la competencia y la envidia mutua de los vivos.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Envy, Competition, Ancient

  'Leviathan' (1651) 'A Review and Conclusion'

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• As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

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  Sight, Shining, Sun

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

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  Men, Judging, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.210, 谷月社

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• The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

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  Ciencia, Pasado, Hombres

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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  Philosophical, Men, Welcome

  Leviathan "A Review and Conclusion" (1651)

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• War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

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  Guerra, Lucha, Batalla

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.125, Broadview Press

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• The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

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  Law, Body, Too Much

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.672, Thomas Hobbes

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• Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

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  Men, Equal, Caution

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

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  Dream, Thinking, Waking

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.102

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• The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

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  Want, Firsts, Causes

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

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• The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

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  Philosophy, Book, Law

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 26, 1651.

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• Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

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  Passion, Atheism, Different

  Thomas Hobbes (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry”, p.174

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• But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

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  Fall, Men, Reason

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• De donde resulta que los que confían en los libros, hacen como los que echan muchas pequeñas sumas en una mayor, sin considerar si esas pequeñas sumas estaban bien echadas o no; y al fin encontrando visible el error, y no desconfiando de sus primeras razones, no saben por dónde despejarse; sino que pasan el tiempo revoloteando sobre sus libros, como los pájaros que entrando por la chimenea, y encontrándose encerrados en una cámara, revolotean a la falsa luz de una ventana de cristal, por falta de ingenio para considerar por dónde entraron.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Book, Errors, Glasses

  Thomas Hobbes (1898). “The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works”

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• When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.

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  Ignorance, Men, Errors

  Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

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  Past, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.96, 谷月社

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• By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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  Past, Men, Expectations

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.23, Broadview Press

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• And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

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  Men, Hazards, Charity

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 30, 1651.

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• Si se quitara este temor supersticioso a los Espíritus, y con él, los Pronósticos de los Sueños, las falsas Profecías, y muchas otras cosas que dependen de ellos, por las cuales, los ambiciosos astutos abusan de la gente sencilla, los hombres estarían mucho más aptos de lo que están para la Obediencia civil.

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  Dream, Taken, Simple

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC

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• For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

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  Eye, Imagination, Obscure

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• El hombre se distingue no sólo por su razón, sino también por esta singular pasión, de todos los demás animales.

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  Passion, Men, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.119

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• That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

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  Peace, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.99, Broadview Press

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• I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

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  Atheism, World, Holes

  Thomas Hobbes (1812). “The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].”, p.66

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• Y en estas cuatro cosas, la opinión de los fantasmas, la ignorancia de las causas segundas, la devoción hacia lo que los hombres temen, y la toma de cosas casuales para pronósticos, consiste la semilla natural de la religión; que a causa de las diferentes fantasías, juicios y pasiones de varios hombres, ha crecido en ceremonias tan diferentes, que las que son usadas por un hombre, son en su mayor parte ridículas para otro.

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  Ignorancia, Pasión, Hombres

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). "Leviatán", p.90, Simon and Schuster

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