There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

Leviathan, Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill (ed. 1651)