When the Australian government tried to translate its tax rules into plain English it discovered that five lines of code could decompress into as many as five pages of comprehensible prose.
These lines from Leviathan - Hobbes' best-known work and a masterpiece of English prose - have been read as meaning that humans are by nature violent animals.
Instead he was interested in the polyphony (separate lines of music intermingling) first of the Italian renaissance composer Palestrina, and then the English composers of the 16th century.