No arts, no letters - no society.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

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.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.