“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.”
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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.
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 obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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.
