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Man is a Wolf to Man

And what to do about it

I find myself often reflecting on this axiom. Everywhere I look I see it (… does that make me a pessimist? A realist?).

The origin of Man is a Wolf to Man is debatable. “It appeared in a popular Roman proverb by Plautus (dead 184 B. C.), in his Asinaria. Thomas Hobbes later used it in his De cive, Epistola dedicatoria.” More currently some attribute it to…