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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
人的激情通常比他们的理性更强大。
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
The power of a man, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.
一个人的力量，是他当前的手段，以获得未来明显的好处。
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
科学是关于后果的知识，以及一个事实对另一个事实的依赖。
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.
促使人们倾向于和平的激情是对死亡的恐惧，对舒适生活必需品的渴望，以及通过自己的努力获得这些的希望。
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
没有剑的契约只是空话，根本无法保护一个人。
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.