Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Interpretation
Ambition and greed are constant driving forces in human nature.
In this quote, Thomas Hobbes emphasizes that ambition and covetousness are inherent passions within people that continuously exert pressure on their behavior and choices. These emotions drive individuals to pursue power, wealth, and success, often influencing their relationships and societal dynamics.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving one's goals.
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.
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