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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

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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Thomas Hobbes
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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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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

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Peace
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. – Denis Diderot

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Sound is the vocabulary of nature. – Pierre Schaeffer

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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature. – Vera Farmiga

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Nature

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