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Thomas Hobbes

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

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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.

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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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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

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And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

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Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

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