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“ 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. ”

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Hell is truth seen too late.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

~ Thomas Hobbes