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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.

David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Brain Philosophy Privilege Thought
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
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
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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Excellent Happiness Himself Philosophy Situation Temper
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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Action End Philosophy Power Product
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
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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Infinite Philosophy Satisfy
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Bad Deep Good Heaven Hell Man Philosophy Religious
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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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Allow Blame Human Man Philosophy Selfish Separate
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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Fiction Identity Mind Nature Talk Thing
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave

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