It is wise to compass as many good ends as possibly you can, and, seeing there are inconveniences on both sides, with benefits on both, to give up a part of the benefit to soften the inconvenience.
Burke advocates for balancing benefits and inconveniences in decision-making.
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Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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