“The law always limits every power it gives.”
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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 continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
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.