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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. - Thomas Ho

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by 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

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

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Experience
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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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War
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. – Charles Baudelaire

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Nature

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Nature

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? – Henry Ward Beecher

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Nature

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Nature

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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britains stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. – Eamon de Valera

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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I dont know man. Its amazing. – T-Pain

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I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Im not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. – Tony Kushner

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