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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)
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leisure: Where first were great and flourishing Cities, there was first the study of Philosophy.
Leviathan (1651)
Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.
Leviathan (1651)
And Beasts that have Deliberation, must necessarily also have Will.
Leviathan (1651)
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.
Leviathan (1651)
"Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth;"
Leviathan (1651)
This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently) of that Mortall God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence.
Leviathan (1651)
But Aversion wee have for things, not only which we know have hurt us; but also that we do not know whether they will hurt us, or not.
Leviathan (1651)
But if it bee well considered, The praise of Ancient Authors, proceeds not from the reverence of the Dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the Living.
Leviathan (1651)
For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
Leviathan (1651)
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.
Leviathan (1651)
"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:"
Leviathan (1651)
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.
Leviathan (1651)