For the laws of nature, as I have shewed in the end of the fifteenth chapter, are immutable and eternal; but the force and efficacy of these laws depend upon the security which men have of being able to perform them.
Leviathan, social contract
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"The laws of nature are not properly laws, but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."
Controversial"Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all."
Controversial"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
Strange & Unusual"The greatest good is the greatest evil: or rather, the greatest evil is that which is most destructive of life."
Controversial"The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them."
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