The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

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

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

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