Hobbes adds seventeen more to these two basic laws of nature and reaches to nineteen natural laws. Security, according to Hobbes, cannot be attained by natural law. “For the laws of nature – enjoining justice, fairness, modesty, mercy, and (in short) treating others as we want them to treat us – are in themselves contrary to our natural passions, unless some power frightens us into observing them. In the absence of such power, our natural passions carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like. And covenants without the sword are merely words, with no strength to secure a man at all”