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.
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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