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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, against every man."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
Glory
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
Family
"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
War
"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."
Life
"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
Death
"Words are the money of fools."
Money
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
Money
"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
Freedom
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
Wisdom
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