The laws of nature are not properly laws, but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves.
Leviathan, social contract
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"The right of all sovereigns is derived from the people, not from God."
Controversial"A free man is he that... is not hindered to do what he has the will to do."
Controversial"For every man that is not a fool, hath a desire to preserve himself; and to that end, to avoid death."
Strange & Unusual"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
Strange & Unusual"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them: which till laws be made they cannot …"
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