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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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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Game Justice Law
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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Death Philosophy Victory War World
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power

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