Men often act knowingly against their interest.
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.David Hume
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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The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
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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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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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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
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