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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

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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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

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