Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.