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The law always limits every power it gives.

- David Hume
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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 in commodities and riches.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Membaca dan melenggang-lenggang dan bersantai dan mengobati, yang saya sebut berpikir, adalah kebahagiaan tertinggi saya.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.