Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.