Thomas Hobbes — "For it is with the mind as with the body: when it is at ease, it is apt to take …"

For it is with the mind as with the body: when it is at ease, it is apt to take delight in any new object, and to be pleased with it, if it be not too difficult; but if it be troubled, it is apt to be displeased with any thing, and to be weary of all.
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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Human Nature, Chapter XIII

Date: 1640

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