And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause: - Thomas Hobbes

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And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause:

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About Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose 1651 book Leviathan established the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy.

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Alternative Names: Hobbes Thomas Hobbsted Thomas Hobbes of Malflutry
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From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

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