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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can

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. – Thomas Hobbes

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. – Thomas Hobbes

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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. – Thomas Hobbes

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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