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. 1 Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions. 2 If I had read as much as other men, I would have been as ignorant as they are. 3 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. 4 Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. 5 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. 6 Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man’s calamity. 7 Words are wise men’s counters, but they are the money of fools. 8
