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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those

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. – Thomas Hobbes

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes

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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

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