Quotes

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death.

The first and fundamental law of nature... is to seek peace and follow it.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Covenant without the sword are but words.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Wonder is the source of all philosophy.

The soul is like an uninhabited island until it is populated by thoughts.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Knowledge must be through love.

Beware of the man of a single book.