The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 29 (See also: Rene Girard)
Leviathan (1651)
“To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence.”
Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 136
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Faith's Checkbook entry for June 22.
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
In one of his judgements.
Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice M. Hidayatullah