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Life Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life,…
- For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
- It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
- The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own…
- A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
- 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…
- The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
- Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
- Life is nasty, brutish, and short
- No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary,…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle