Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition. And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, true religion.
"Leviathan", primeira parte; Por Thomas Hobbes; veja (wikisource)
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