For every man is desirous of what is good for himself, and shuns what is evil for himself; but there is no man so good, but that he is ready to take what he can get, and to hold what he hath.
Leviathan, social contract
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"For the laws of nature are not properly laws, but certain dictates of reason."
Controversial"The liberty of a subject lieth therefore only in those things, which in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted."
Humorous"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
Strange & Unusual"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."
Strange & Unusual"The right of nature ... 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 own life; and consequently, of doing any …"
Controversial