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Few Quotes by David Hume
- Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the…
- 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…
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either…
- Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,…
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