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«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.»
«The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.»
«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.»
«No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes (Philosopher) | About: Errors | Keywords: obliges, persist
«Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.»
«Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.»
«Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.»
«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.»
«Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.»

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