John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2256 Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2256 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) |
| QUOTATION: | No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii. |