Some Hobbes-isms, from Liberty. The body of this essay consists largely of twenty or so "Laws of Nature" concerning living in civil communities. These are so humane and welcoming that I think the artist must have caught Thomas on a bad day. In hope that you'll go scout up all of them, here are a couple of my favorites, taken out of order:
...as the Lawes of Nature are nought else but the dictates of Reason, so as, unlesse a man endeavour to preserve the faculty of right reasoning, he cannot observe the
Lawes of Nature, it is manifest, that he, who knowingly, or willingly, doth ought, whereby the rationall faculty may be destroyed, or weakned, he knowingly, and willingly, breaks the Law of nature: For there is no difference between a man who
performes not his Duty, and him who does such things willingly, as make it impossible for him to doe it.
That it is prescribed by the Law of nature, that no man either by deeds, or words,
countenance, or laughter, doe declare himselfe to hate, or scorne another.
Since therefore many common Rights are retained by those who enter into a peaceable state, and that many peculiar ones are also acquired, hence ariseth this
ninth dictate of the naturall Law, to wit, That what Rights soever any man challenges to himselfe, he also grant the same as due to all the rest: otherwise he frustrates the equality acknowledged in the former Article.
But there is no man who is not sometimes in a quiet mind; At that time therefore
there is nothing easier for him to know, though he be never so rude and unlearn'd, then this only Rule, That when he doubts, whether what he is now doing to another, may be done by the Law of Nature, or not, he conceive himselfe to be in that others
stead. Here instantly those perturbations which perswaded him to the fact, being now cast into the other scale, disswade him as much: And this Rule is not onely easie, but is Anciently celebrated in these words, Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne
feceris: Do not that to others, you would not have done to your self.