“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.Thomas Hobbes
“[In a state of nature] 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.Thomas Hobbes
“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.Thomas Hobbes
“The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.Thomas Hobbes