Thomas Hobbes
“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
“Authority, not truth, makes the law.”
“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them.”
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words.”
“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”