“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.”

— Thomas Hobbes , book Leviathan

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

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English philosopher, born 1588 1588–1679

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