Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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