In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. — Quoted

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“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”

Thomas Hobbes · Nature

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Thomas Hobbes

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.

Fear

Thomas Hobbes

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.

Power

Thomas Hobbes

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

War

Thomas Hobbes

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

War