If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEThe bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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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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