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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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Alone Arrogant Man Mistake Passion Secure
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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