For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESCovenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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 source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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