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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.

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.

David Hume

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

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.