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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we

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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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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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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Nature
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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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Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes. – Terri Guillemets, “A renewed outlook,” 2007

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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. – Epicurus

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Beneath fear, a bit of poetry always escapes. Sometimes, a ready soul picks it up and finds a way to transform it into beautiful verses of courage. – Terri Guillemets, “Abandoned treasure,” 2016

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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. – Lloyd Douglas

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