Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

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

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

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.

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.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.