Quote#Wisdom
[N]o human institution can arrive at perfection, and the most that…
Quote byHenry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke · 1678–1751
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On the Spirit of Patriotism (1736), p. 45.
English (original)
[N]o human institution can arrive at perfection, and the most that human wisdom can do, is to procure the same or greater good, at the expence of less evil.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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