Thomas Hobbes — "The greatest good is the preservation of life, and the greatest evil is death."

"But the most frequent reason why men desire to hurt each other, proceedeth from this, that one man's will is contrary to another's will, or his action to another's action, or his words to another's wo…"

"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them: which till laws be made they cannot …"

"For it is with the mind as with the body: when it is at ease, it is apt to take delight in any new object, and to be pleased with it, if it be not too difficult; but if it be troubled, it is apt to be…"

"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."