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Thomas Hobbes1588–1679

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death.

Thomas Hobbes on power

Leviathan (1651), Pt. I, Ch. 11, p. 47

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