David Hume

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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.
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
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.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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.
The law always limits every power it gives.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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