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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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes

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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 nature that is to say, of his own life. – Thomas Hobbes

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. – Thomas Hobbes

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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo Da Vinci

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Death always comes too early or too late. – English Proverb

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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind. – A. N. Wilson

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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. – Elton John

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