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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

David Hume

The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Bad Deep Good Heaven Hell Man Philosophy Religious
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
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
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
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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Age Appear Human Monument Nation
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
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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Beautiful Different Exist Mind Philosophy Quality Thing
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
Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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Alone Man Passion Philosophy Result Temper Thing Understand
The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
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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Different Man Perspective Success
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Brain Philosophy Privilege Thought
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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Fiction Identity Mind Nature Talk Thing

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

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