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.
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.
-- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
-- The Leviathan, Part i, Chap. xviii