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Drawn from what David Hume said
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
It may easily be observed, that though free governments have been commonly the most happy for those who partake of their freedom; yet are they the most ruinous and oppressive to their provinces: and this observation may, I believe, be fixed as a maxim of the kind we are here speaking of.
Where this was said
↗Essays, Moral and Political (selection; 1741-1776)gutenberg.org
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