Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.