Thomas Hobbes:

The greatest good is the greatest evil: or rather, the greatest evil is that which is most destructive of life.

— Thomas Hobbes Early Modern

Leviathan, social contract

De Corpore, Part IV, Chapter XXV, Section 1

1655

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