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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

David Hume

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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Infinite Philosophy Satisfy
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
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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Excellent Happiness Himself Philosophy Situation Temper
Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Condition Exist Philosophy Return
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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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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Believe Deity God Human Low Passion Philosophy
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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Action End Philosophy Power Product
But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Animal Deep Great Important Life Man Philosophy Universe
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue

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