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Leviathan

CHAPTER XI
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OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS.
What Is Here Meant By Manners By MANNERS, I mean not here, Decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the Small Morals; But those qualities of man-kind, that concern their living together in Peace, and Unity.

To which end we are to consider, that the Felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied.

For there is no such Finis Ultimus, (utmost ayme,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest good,) as is spoken of in the Books of the old Morall Philosophers.

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.


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