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For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
Leviathan (1651)
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Leviathan (1651)
And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
Leviathan (1651)
Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
Leviathan (1651)
For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Leviathan (1651)
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.
Leviathan (1651)
Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.
Leviathan (1651)
Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.
Leviathan (1651)
Geometry, which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on man.
Leviathan (1651)
And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
Leviathan (1651)
Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.
Leviathan (1651)
No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
Leviathan (1651)
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
Leviathan (1651)
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
Leviathan (1651)
"Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech."
Leviathan (1651)
For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
Leviathan (1651)
But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Leviathan (1651)
And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
Leviathan (1651)
From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
Leviathan (1651)
The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly...