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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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Believe History Philosophy Religious
The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Care Design Purpose Stupidity Think
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue
no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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Deep Establish False Kind Miracle Philosophy Sufficient
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
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
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
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
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
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
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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Culture Different Direction Fact Law Place Water
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
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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Allow Blame Human Man Philosophy Selfish Separate

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