For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that gives the words their true signification.
Leviathan, social contract
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"For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protec…"
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Strange & Unusual"For every man that is not a fool, hath a desire to preserve himself; and to that end, to avoid death."
Strange & Unusual"For words are but the marks of concepts, and concepts are but the images of things."
Strange & Unusual"But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth."
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