Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Quoted

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“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

Thomas Hobbes · War

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Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Death

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Wisdom

Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

Nature

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Fear