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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.

David Hume

There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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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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.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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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