A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which … - Thomas Hobbes

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I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

Thomas Hobbes

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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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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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

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