Thomas Hobbes — "For every man is desirous of what is good for himself, and shuns what is evil fo…"

For every man is desirous of what is good for himself, and shuns what is evil for himself; but there is no man so good, but that he is ready to take what he can get, and to hold what he hath.
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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De Cive, Chapter I

Date: 1642

Life & Death

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