# Quote — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

> And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

- Author: [Thomas Hobbes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes.md)
- Book: [Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan.md)
- Page: 181
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/and-whereas-many

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> And when all the world is overcharged with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre, which provideth for every man, by Victory or Death.

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> And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.

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