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"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"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."

"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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