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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death”
Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XI (1651 text (original spelling))
Because no one can secure present goods without acquiring more, desire for power never rests.
Citation: "So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XI (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q7)
Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.
