PhilosophyQuotes:

"The faculties of Humane nature may be reduc'd unto four kinds; Bodily strength, Experience, Reason, Passion."

"The cause of mutual fear consists partly in the natural equality of men, partly in their mutual will of hurting..."

"...we must forgive him who repents, and asketh pardon for what is past; having first taken caution for the time to come."

-Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), De Cive (1651)

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