War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.