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• A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, David Grene (1989). “The Peloponnesian War”, p.584, University of Chicago Press

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• From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

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  Passion, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.

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  Men, Hands, Towers

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.107

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• The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

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  Art, Deliverance, Existence

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• For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

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  Spring, Moving, Watches

  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.97

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• For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.

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  Men, Body, Earth

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.162, 谷月社

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• For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

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  Guerra, Lucha, Batalla

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• For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

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  Men, Evil, Uniting

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

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  Spiritual, Ignorance, Night

  1651 Leviathan, pt.4, ch.44.

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• The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.

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  Memories, Men, Errors

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

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  Math, Together, University

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• But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

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  Bible, God, Believe

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• For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

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  Men, Justice, Excuse

  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.179

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• Deseo, de saber por qué y cómo, CURIOSIDAD; tal como no existe en ninguna otra criatura viviente sino en el Hombre; de modo que el Hombre se distingue, no sólo por su Razón, sino también por esta singular Pasión de otros Animales; en quienes el apetito de la comida, y otros placeres del Sentido, por predominio, quitan el cuidado de conocer las causas; lo cual es una Lujuria de la mente, que por una perseverancia de deleite en la continua e infatigable generación de Conocimiento, excede la corta vehemencia de cualquier Placer carnal.

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  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

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  Dios, Hombres, Orden

  Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.

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  Guerra, Hombres, Batalla

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

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  Mentir, Creer, Corazón

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• There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

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  Kings, Identity, Substance

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.393, Broadview Press

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• No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

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  Men, Bounds

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.219, Xist Publishing

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• Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

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  Hurt, Men, Election

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition”, p.18

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• For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

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  Sick, Religion, Pills

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 3, ch. 32

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• A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.

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  Heart, Order, Two

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.62, Xist Publishing

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• I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

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  Liberty, May, Too Much

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

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  Truth, Knowledge, Math

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

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  Art, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.9, Broadview Press

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