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- In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.…
- No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and…
- But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;…
- We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and…
- I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other…
- The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places…
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
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