The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Quote by David Hume

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly...

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly...

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In...

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In...

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a...

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a...

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself...

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself...

There is no They, Only Us.

There is no They, Only Us.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable...

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable...

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of...

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of...

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the...

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the...

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never...

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more...

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more...