What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

Nature itself cannot err