Every wise, just, and mild government…– David Hume
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as
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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’.
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
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