"No man can have a right to anything, unless he has a power to defend it."

"For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"For every man that is not a fool, hath a desire to preserve himself; and to that end, to avoid death."

"The right of nature, which writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his ow…"

"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them."