“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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.