"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."

"The value of a man is not in himself, but in the estimation of others."

"For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose prot…"

"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…"

"And from 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."