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1588–1679 · Early Modern (English)
The theorist of the social contract and the absolute sovereign.
...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Original (English)
“Without a common power, the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Leviathan, ch. 13 (1651)
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