Best quotes by Thomas Hobbes on Man

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• ‟ That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

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• ‟ The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

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• ‟ A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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• ‟ When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

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• ‟ The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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• ‟ The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

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• ‟ No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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