For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
— Leviathan
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Where this quote comes from
Hobbes wrote this in Leviathan, in the chapter on how people differ in their manners. Happiness for him is never a resting place: each thing gained is only a step toward the next desire. The reason, he goes on, is that people want to secure the way to future desires, which is why everyone works to obtain and keep a contented life.
Source: Leviathan (1651), Part I, Chapter 11
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