The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes
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- I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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