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" It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. "

" Truth springs from argument amongst friends. "

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

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

" A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. "

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" Everything in the world is purchased by labor. "

" Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. "

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

" This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. "

" No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. "

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" No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. "

" What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. "

" Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. "

" The law always limits every power it gives. "

" The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. "

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

" 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. "

" And what is the greatest number? Number one. "

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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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" It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. "

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