"For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose prot…"

"The greatest good is the greatest evil: or rather, the greatest evil is that which is most destructive of life."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed in the end of the fifteenth chapter, are immutable and eternal; but the force and efficacy of these laws depend upon the security which men have of being able …"

"The greatest good is that which is most pleasant to us."

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."