"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.“
-Thomas Hobbes
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"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."
-Thomas Hobbes
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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."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
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