Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
DAVID HUMEBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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