The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.