Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan · 1651

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Might makes right War

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Political literature Philosophical literature

Time

1651 The Renaissance

Person

Thomas Hobbes

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Current citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

Original citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Thomas Hobbes

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