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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

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Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason.

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny flattery to treachery standing armies to arbitrary government and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

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I may venture to affirm 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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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

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That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

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If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number' No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence' No. Commit it then to the flames for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see all this is nothing but to perceive.

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

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

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

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