"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.“
-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."
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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."
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
-Thomas Hobbes
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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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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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