So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

If a nation blames other nations for its problems, most likely that nation will always be having problems.

No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

There is one—how would you put it—loophole.” “Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.

All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!

‎Experts are clueless.