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  • If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

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    Thomas Hobbes (1750). “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, ...”, p.448

  • Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

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    Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.396, Cambridge University Press

  • The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

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    Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.473, Cambridge University Press
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Thomas Hobbes

  • Born: April 5, 1588
  • Died: December 4, 1679
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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