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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  2. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

  4. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht

  5. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.... - William Shakespeare

More Quotes By Thomas Hobbes
  1. For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

  2. Hell is truth seen too late.

  3. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

  4. Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

  5. Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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