When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
DAVID HUMEHe is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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 purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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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.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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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