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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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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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No man can be judge to his own cause.
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I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.
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Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
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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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He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
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Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
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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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And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause.
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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.
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Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.
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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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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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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
Thomas Hobbes