No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.