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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

David Hume

Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Condition Exist Philosophy Return
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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Excellent Happiness Himself Philosophy Situation Temper
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Brain Philosophy Privilege Thought
If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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Always Conscious Man Real Reference Right
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
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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Age Appear Human Monument Nation
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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Fiction Identity Mind Nature Talk Thing
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner

Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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