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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost 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
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Bad Deep Good Heaven Hell Man Philosophy Religious
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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Different Man Perspective Success
Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Argument Force Government Politics Revolution
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Law Miracle Nature One Liner
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Care Design Purpose Stupidity Think
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Beautiful Different Exist Mind Philosophy Quality Thing
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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Believe Deity God Human Low Passion Philosophy
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think

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