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Thomas Hobbes1588–1679

Thomas Hobbes on philosophy

Leasure is the mother of Philosophy; and Common-wealth, the mother of Peace, and Leasure

Leviathan (1651), Part IV: Of the Kingdome of Darknesse, Chapter XLVI

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