Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
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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.David Hume
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
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Custom is the great guide to human life.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
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