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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

David Hume

To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

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