[singlow]

It goes back a bit further than Hobbes :)

"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?" - Jeremiah

"Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." - Moses, about man before the flood.

"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil." - the Gospel of John