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.
To this war of every man against every man， this also in consequent； that nothing can be unjust.The notions of right and wrong， justice and injustice， have there no place.Where there is no common power， there is no law: where no law， no injustice.
Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind， as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another， yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
