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"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes / Leviathan
Leviathan
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"For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."
Thomas Hobbes / The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv.
The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes / The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii.
The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain