"The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end."

"The greatest good is the preservation of life, and the greatest evil is death."

"And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet becau…"

"For seeing that the whole life of man is but a motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"And from this diffidence of one another, there is no way for any man to secure himself, so reasonable, as anticipation; that is, by force, or wiles, to master the persons of all men he can, so long, t…"