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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.

David Hume

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.

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