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

David Hume

It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Appear History Mad Ordinary Philosophy
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
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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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
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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Deep Establish False Kind Miracle Philosophy Sufficient
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
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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Attention Challenge Deep Foundation Human Important Philosophy Reason Religious

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