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“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

Thomas Hobbes · Experience

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Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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Thomas Hobbes

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

Death

Thomas Hobbes

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

War

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.

Power