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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and

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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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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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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