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Lastly, the Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.
The Introduction
Leviathan (1651)

“But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel, when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 4, p. 12 (See also: Julian Jaynes)
Leviathan (1651)

“Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 29, p. 168
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.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 66
Leviathan (1651)

“The doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by Pen and the Sword: Whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust. For I doubt not, but if it had been a thing contrary to any mans right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, That the three Angles of a Triangle, should be equall to two Angles of a Square; that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of Geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 80-81
Leviathan (1651)

“The RIGHT OF NATURE, which Writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the Liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own Nature; that is to say, of his own Life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own Judgement, and Reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 64
Leviathan (1651)

“And Beasts that have Deliberation, must necessarily also have Will.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 28
Leviathan (1651)

“As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 18, p. 93
Leviathan (1651)

“For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

Review and Conclusion, p. 396, (Last text line)
Leviathan (1651)

“And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 30, p. 181
Leviathan (1651)

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

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 144
Leviathan (1651)

“Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 15, p. 76 (Italics as per text)
Leviathan (1651)

“Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 27 (italics and spelling as per text)
Leviathan (1651)

“But yet they that have no Science, are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.”

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Thomas Hobbes livre Léviathan

The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21
Leviathan (1651)

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