Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

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

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.