Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
From Thomas Hobbes
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
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.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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.
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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