 | Cornelius Tacitus - Rome - 1854 - 528 pages
...i. 1.) Hobbes of Malmesbury seems to have had his eye on Tacitus, when he says, in his Leviathan, " Benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom ; and...unrequitable obligation perpetual thraldom, which is hateful." 1 Hist. iii. 77. 3 See Suetonius, Life of Domitian, s. 1. 4 Mucianus assumed a character... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1868 - 194 pages
...vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three, f where he might never see him more. For benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom, and unrequitable obligations perpetual thraldom ; which is hateful. " — "Leviathan," p. 48. *"Novum imperium inchoantibus... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1874 - 508 pages
...greater benefits than there is hope to requite, disposeth to counterfeit love ; but really secret hatred. For benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom; and...perpetual thraldom, which is to one's equal, hateful.' Cf. ЕЛ. ix. vil. 17 — 19 Points in the character of the liberal man: he will take care of his own... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1874 - 458 pages
...benefits than there is hope to requite, disposeth to counterfeit love ; but really secret hatred. 1'or benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom ; and...perpetual thraldom, which is to one's equal, hateful.' Cf. Eth. is. vii. 17 — 19 Points in the character of the liberal man: he will take care of his own... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1885 - 480 pages
...greater benefits than there is hope to requite, disposeth to counterfeit love ; but really secret hatred. For benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom ;...perpetual thraldom, which is to one's equal, hateful.' Cf. Eth. IX. VU. 17-19 Points in the character of the liberal man : he will take care of his own property... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...estate of a desperate debtor, that in declining the sight of his creditor, tacitly wishes him there, where he might never see him more. For benefits oblige,...perpetual thraldom ; which is to one's equal, hateful. But to have received benefits from one, whom we acknowledge for superior, inclines to love ; because... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...estate of a desperate debtor, that in declining the sight of his creditor, tacitly wishes him there, where he might never see him more. For benefits oblige,...perpetual thraldom ; which is to one's equal, hateful. But to have received benefits from one, whom we acknowledge for superior, inclines to love ; because... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...estate of a desperate debtor, that in declining the sight of his creditor, tacitly wishes him there, where he might never see him more. For benefits oblige,...perpetual thraldom; which is to one's equal, hateful. But to have received benefits from one, whom we acknowledge for superior, inclines to love; because... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - Philosophers - 1904 - 280 pages
...estate of a desperate debtor that, in declining the sight of his creditor, tacitly wishes him there where he might never see him more. For benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom ; and an unrequitable obligation perpetual thraldom, which is to one's equal hateful." Obligation to a recognised... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...estate of a desperate debtor that, in declining the sight of his creditor, tacitly wishes him there where he might never see him more. For benefits oblige,...perpetual thraldom, which is to one's equal, hateful. But to have received benefits from one whom we acknowledge for superior inclines to love; because the... | |
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To have received from one to whom we think ourselves equal greater benefits than there is hope to requite disposeth to counterfeit love, but really secret hatred; and puts a man into the estate of a desperate debtor that, in declining the sight of his... 
