Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Thomas HobbesA wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas HobbesWar consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas Hobbes