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The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Book by Thomas Hobbes · 3 quotes · Men, Desire, Every Man

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The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750 Quotes

“Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.”

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“Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.”

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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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