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“Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?”

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Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a prominent Greek philosopher, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. He founded the Academy, which was the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Plato's philosophy, centered around the theory of Forms, emphasized the importance of reason and morality. more

“To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.”

Men War Law Political Force Justice Common Virtue Notion Injustice Every Man Fraud Unjust Cardinals Leviathan Justice And Injustice

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.”

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.”

Men May Political Natural Greater Corporations Worms Commonwealth Bowels

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.”

Political Enemy Violence Pride Disease Injustice Oppression Ruins Rebellion Cowardice Slaughter Intemperance Leviathan Rashness Mischance

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.”

Political Monarchs Orators Flatterer

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“Reason is the Soul of the Law.”

Soul Reason Law Political

Book:Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right

Source: Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right

“Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.”

Political Passion Ambition Incumbents

Author:Thomas Hobbes

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