ABSTRACT
The first, maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. Men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all. For war, consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time, is to be considered in the nature of war; as it is in the nature of weather. Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
