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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 w...more

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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...more

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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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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.

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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, a...more