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As for [...] Of all passions, that which inclineth men least to break the laws is fear.
Leviathan (1651)
As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them, that assault him by force, to take away his life; because he cannot be understood to ayme thereby, at any Good to himself.
Leviathan (1651)
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame…
Leviathan (1651)
Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?
Leviathan (1651)
The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power...
Leviathan (1651)
The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
Leviathan (1651)
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Leviathan (1651)
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.
Leviathan (1651)
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Leviathan (1651)
And when all the world is overcharged with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre, which provideth for every man, by Victory or Death.
Leviathan (1651)
When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
Leviathan (1651)
As also the great number of Corporations; which are as it were many lesser Common-wealths in the bowels of a greater, like wormes in the entrayles of a natural man.
Leviathan (1651)
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice, with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
Leviathan (1651)
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.
Leviathan (1651)
" and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine:"
Leviathan (1651)
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.
Leviathan (1651)
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
Leviathan (1651)
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
Leviathan (1651)
Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man.
Leviathan (1651)
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death.
Leviathan (1651)