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" Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. "

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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. "

" War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. "

" Words are the money of fools. "

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" 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. "

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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 without fear, no more than without sense. "

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" The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. "

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" Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. "

" 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. "

" Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "

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" A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. "

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