"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion."

"To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common po…"

"For the laws of nature are not properly laws, but certain dictates of reason."

"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 therefore, if a man consider that argument, which is drawn from the common consent of all nations, to prove there is a God; he must not think it an argument of God's existence, but of the existenc…"