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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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