Quote#Freedom
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on…
Quote byThomas Hobbes · 1588–1679
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dedication, The Epistle Dedicatory, Paris, April 15-25, 1651.
English (original)
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.
— Thomas Hobbes
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