Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESWhatsoever 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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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