Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

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.