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

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

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

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.