To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.