"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."

"Fear and I were born twins."

"For he that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind."

"Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former, being still but the way to the latter."

"But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth."