The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

The reputation of power IS power.

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.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.