Tag: Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.