Quote by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

• Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

• Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

• How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

• Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

• The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.