The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
David Hume
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- This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
- 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.
- Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
- 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.