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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.

David Hume

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
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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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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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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Affair Day Decent Expose Eyes Man Public Truth World
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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