A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.