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191: 340:, "Men are not gentle creatures, who want to be loved, who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. 324:"To speak impartially, both sayings are very true; That Man to Man is a kind of God; and that Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe. The first is true, if we compare Citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare Cities." Hobbes was describing the tendency of people to act fairly and generously toward other people in the same society and the tendency of societies to act deceptively and violently toward other societies, or 117: 25: 66: 351:
disagreed with the proverb, writing that it "contains two major flaws. First, it fails to do justice to canids, which are among the most gregarious and cooperative animals on the planet (Schleidt and Shalter 2003). But even worse, the saying denies the inherently social nature of our own species."
328:, "In the one, there's some analogy of similitude with the Deity, to wit, Justice and Charity, the twin-sisters of peace: But in the other, Good men must defend themselves by taking to them for a Sanctuary the two daughters of War, Deceit and Violence". 377:, after being convicted of murder, along with Nicola Sacco, in 1927, said that their pending execution would become an emblem "of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man". 190: 258:
as "Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger," or "A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what that man is like."
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meaning literally "Man to man is wolf". It is used to refer to situations where a person has behaved comparably to a
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disagreed with the proverb: "'Man,' says Ovid, 'is not a wolf to his fellow man, but a man.'"
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A variation of the proverb appeared as line 495 in the play
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Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit
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in the United States in 1910, Russian Zionist activist
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as "man, an object of reverence in the eyes of man".
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Homo homini lupus (disambiguation)

Maximilian Pirner
satire
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Latin proverb
wolf
Asinaria
Plautus
has been translated
Seneca the Younger
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
has been translated
Erasmus
Adagia
Francisco de Vitoria
wrote in one of his Relectiones Theologicae
Ovid

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