To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.