If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEIt is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
More David Hume Quotes
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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