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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.

David Hume

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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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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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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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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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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