But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
DAVID HUMEAll knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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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.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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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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