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.
DAVID HUMEHeaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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