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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.

David Hume

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
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
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Danger Deep Error Philosophy Religious Speak
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
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
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Cure Philosophy
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
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
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue

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