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“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.”

Thomas Hobbes · Death

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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.

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Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Loneliness

Thomas Hobbes

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

War

Thomas Hobbes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

War