Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan (1651)

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The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight...

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To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

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There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

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The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

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The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

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Geometry... is the Mother of all Natural Science.

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By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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When a thing lies still, unless somewhat else stir it, it will lie still forever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat else stay it, though the reason be the same, namely, that nothing can change itself, is not so easily assented to.

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