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

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

I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.

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.

If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.