It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUMEEpicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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