“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind,…”

“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.”

— Thomas Hobbes

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The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 29 (See also: Rene Girard)

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