History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.David Hume
The law always limits every power it gives.
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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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