David Hume

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

— David Hume

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

— 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. ↗

— David Hume

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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. ↗

— David Hume

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

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The law always limits every power it gives. ↗

— David Hume

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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. ↗

— David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

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