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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.

David Hume

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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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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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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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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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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