Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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