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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.

David Hume

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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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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Believe Deep Examine Philosophy
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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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