Best David Hume Proverbs
- The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the… Arbitrary
- Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion. Convulsions
- The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe… Any
- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. All
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them Beauty
- The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this… Any
- There is no They, Only Us. Mankind
- That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. Affirmation
- He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances Any
- The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… Absurdity
- Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them. Beauty
- Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not… Admits
- Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with aspirit of liberty; as superstition, on the contrary, renders men tame and… Abject
- Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that… Any
- A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but noone poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance… Cabinet
- Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to… All
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