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
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter. – Thomas Hobbes
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
The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders