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Effects will always correspond to causes...

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All knowledge resolves itself into probability...

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The idea of motion necessarily supposes that of a body moving.

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Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.

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In a word, then, every effect is a distinct event from its cause.

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The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

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Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

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The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

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All effects follow not with like certainty from their supposed causes.

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Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

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

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In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

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The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

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The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

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The voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

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Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains

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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

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A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

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What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

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That policy is violent, which aggrandizes the public by the poverty of individuals.

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

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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

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Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

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

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Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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