“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”

:3 Fish: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
:1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
:*William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act ii. Sc. 1.
Source: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 18; comparable to:

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British politician and political theorist 1623–1683

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