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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
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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Excellent Happiness Himself Philosophy Situation Temper
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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Deep Imagination Important Philosophy War Word
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
DAVID HUME

Infinite Philosophy Satisfy
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think
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
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Greedy Philosophy Wonder
But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Animal Deep Great Important Life Man Philosophy Universe
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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Action End Philosophy Power Product
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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Affair Day Decent Expose Eyes Man Public Truth World
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
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

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