“ 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
“ 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. 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. 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. Thomas Hobbes
“ That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty… Thomas Hobbes
“ When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. Thomas Hobbes
“ The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. Thomas Hobbes
“ 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
“ That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty… Thomas Hobbes
“ 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
“ Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, ‘that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angl… Thomas Hobbes
“ As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the j… Thomas Hobbes
“ The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opin… Thomas Hobbes
“ Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's con… Thomas Hobbes
