“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
