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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

David Hume

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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