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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.

David Hume

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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