the state of war once begun, continues with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, - John Locke

Though the managing ourselves well in this part of our behavior has the name good-breeding, as if a peculiar effect of education; yet... young children should not be much perplexed about it... Teach them humility, and to be good-natur'd, if you can, and this sort of manners will not be wanting; civility being in truth nothing but a care not to shew any slighting or contempt of any one in conversation.

though men had a right to appropriate, by their labour, each one to himself, as much of
the things of nature as he could use:

This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs can be done them by polecats and foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.