Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because…

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things…

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another…

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth…

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of…

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract…

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right…

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe…

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or…

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no…

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be…

The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power…

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past…

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues…

The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone…