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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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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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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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 is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
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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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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
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