Wolfmann....given his real estate "holdings''
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 18 10:22:22 CDT 2009
"man is a wolf to man." First attested in Plautus' Asinaria ("lupus est homo homini"), the sentence was drawn on by Thomas Hobbes when he wrote "Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe" in the opening line of the De cive, Epistola dedicatoria section of Leviathan as a concise expression of his view of human nature.
We know TRP has alluded to Hobbes' "nasty, brutish and short".
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