Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. – Thomas Hobbes
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes
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. – Thomas Hobbes
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 all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes