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.
THOMAS HOBBESIf I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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A great leap in the dark.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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