Thomas Hobbes

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

"The tyranny of habit is stronger than the tyranny of law."

"Action without thought is the path to ruin."

"The commonwealth is as strong as its weakest subject."

"Pride goeth before the fall of empires."

"The art of living is the art of dying well."

"Understanding requires the breaking down of complex things into simple ones."

"The strength of a people lies in their unity."

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all."

"The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

"Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"Fear and I were born twins."

"Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice."

"The greatest human happiness consists in having the freedom to pursue one's own interests."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

"Knowledge is power."

"The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek peace."

"Man's life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is generation, and the ending death."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"Geometry will be the principal and most useful of all the sciences."

"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them."

"The sovereign must use such means as shall appear most tending to the peace and defense of his subjects."

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

"A lie is a fiction that serves some purpose."

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall."

"Imagination is the first step toward creation."

"Time is the image of eternity."

"The mind is the image of God, as the body is the image of the world."

"Law is the public conscience."

"A man's own conscience is the best monitor for his actions."