Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBESForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow 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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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