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Excerpt from Hobbes
Posed for signification of things was changed into arbitrary. For inconsiderate boldness was counted true-hearted manliness provident deliberation a handsome fear; modesty, the cloak of cowardice to be wise in everything, to be lazy in everything. A furious suddenness was reputed a point of valour. To readvise for the better security was held for a fair pretext of tergiversation. He that was fierce was always trusty and he that contraried such a one was suspected. He that did insidiate, if it took, was a wise man; but he that could smell out a trap laid, a more dangerous man than he. But he that had been so provident as not to need to do the one or the other, was said to be a dissolver of society, and one that stood in fear of his adversary. In brief, he that could outstrip another in the doing of an evil act, or that could persuade another thereto that never meant it, was commended.
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