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Full Idea
For Hobbes the 'simple passions' were appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief.
Gist of Idea
The 'simple passions' are appetite, desire, love, aversion, hate, joy, and grief
Source
report of Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], I.6) by Peter Goldie - The Emotions 4 'Evidence'
Book Ref
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.87
A Reaction
This is the standard approach to emotions of Hobbes's time. Modern thinkers probably reject the idea that passions can be simple or basic. Rightly, I think.