James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Hobbes
Curiosity is a desire to know why and how; such as is in no living creature but man.
Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions.
If I had read as much as other men, I would have been as ignorant as they are.
Jus omnium in omnia, et consequenter bellum omnium in omnes—The right of all to everything, and therefore of all to make war on all.
Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word “desire” (the craving for something not possessed) implies that our present felicity is not complete.
Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man’s calamity.
Words are wise men’s counters, but they are the money of fools.