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" Truth springs from argument amongst friends. "

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" I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. "

" 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. "

" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "

" 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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" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

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

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

" It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. "

" 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. "

" Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. "

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

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

" Everything in the world is purchased by labor. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Avarice, the spur of industry. "

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

" The law always limits every power it gives. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. "

" 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. "

" Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. "

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

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