Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
THOMAS HOBBESWhen 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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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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