It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. — Quoted

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“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”

Thomas Hobbes · Wisdom

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Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Loneliness

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Fear

Thomas Hobbes

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

Nature

Thomas Hobbes

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Death