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— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper"Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism.""
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
— Thomas Browne
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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