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.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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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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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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A great leap in the dark.
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