Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.David Hume
When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised authority concealed attention given to each in his turn and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes.
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
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All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.
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