Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBESIt’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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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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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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