"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, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"And consequently, where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice."

"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"

"Rebellion is a disease that proceeds from the ignorance of the people, and the ambition of the few."