Hobbes

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“Such truth, as opposeth no man’s profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“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 (1588–1679)

“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)