Leviathan

The 1651 text. 48 parts, about 205,584 words, 16 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Part 1, chapter 13 · Read it in XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Part 1, chapter 13 · Read it in XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
Part 2, chapter 17 · Read it in XVII: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence.
Part 2, chapter 17 · Read it in XVII: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
The papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Part 4, chapter 47 · Read it in XLVII: Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth

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