Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.
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.”
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
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.”
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Knowledge is 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.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.