"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous."
-David Hume
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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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"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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"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
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"Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
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"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
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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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