Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. -Thomas Hobbes

 

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.


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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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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.

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes