It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
DAVID HUMEWhen 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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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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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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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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