The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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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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Knowledge is power.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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