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David Hume. The most famous aphorisms

A good end can only impart value to means that sufficiently and really lead to the end.
In pity there is always an admixture of love and tenderness, and in gloating - an admixture of hatred or anger.
All that we call heroic prowess and admire as greatness and loftiness of spirit is nothing but calm and well-founded pride and self-respect.
If the only motive of our actions is the desire to show our freedom, then we cannot free ourselves from the bonds of necessity.
If any action is virtuous or vicious, this is only a sign of a certain mental quality or character, it must flow from the permanent principles of our spirit, extending to all human behavior and entering into his personal character.
Schadenfreude is an unprovoked desire to cause harm to another person in order to experience pleasure by comparison with one's own position.
The true skeptic is just as distrustful of his doubts as he is of philosophical writings.
When religiosity is combined with a passion for the miraculous, then the end of all common sense and the testimony of people loses all authority.
When the light condemns us, slanders us, we should not get angry, but rather consider whether there is any basis in these condemnations.
When I hear that this or that person is religious, I immediately think that he is a swindler, although I knew many very good people who were believers.
Love is nothing but the desire for happiness for another.
People are unable to change their nature.
People have a general tendency to represent everything that exists as similar to themselves, and to attribute to each object those qualities with which they are intimately familiar and of which they are immediately aware.
My highest happiness, my complete satisfaction, consists in reading, walking, dreaming, thinking.
Darkness is no less disgusting to the mind than to sight, nothing can give us such pleasure as the opportunity to turn darkness into light, no matter how hard it may cost.
We condemn every deception, every violation of the word, because we believe that the freedom and breadth of communication between people are completely dependent on the faithfulness of the promise.
Not every man can be a philosopher, just as far as not every philosopher can remain a man.
Not the destruction of monsters, the overthrow of tyrants and the defense of the homeland, but scourging and fasting, cowardice and humility, complete submission and slavish obedience - this is what has now become a means of achieving divine honors among people.
Never before has a person given up on life, when it was at least something else worth it.
No testimonial evidence can serve as proof of a miracle, except in a situation where the falsity of the evidence seems even more incredible than the fact that it is supposed to confirm.
Nothing can be more commendable than the consciousness of our own dignity in those cases when we really have valuable qualities.
Nothing is free like a person's thought.
First of all, I am horrified and embarrassed by the hopeless loneliness to which my philosophical system dooms me.
A story rejected by everyone in the place where it was first put into circulation will be considered reliable at a distance of a thousand miles from there.
The strictest morality allows us to feel pleasure at the thought of a generous act.
Freedom, whatever it may be, is lost, as a rule, gradually.
The tendency to joy and hope is true happiness, the tendency to fear and melancholy is real misfortune.
Chance and "fate" are nothing but empty words: stubborn prudence is the fate of man.
Such is the nature of the human mind that it always takes possession of another mind, and to the extent that it is beautifully strengthened by the unanimity of feelings, any contradiction shakes and shakes it.
It is difficult for a person who talks about himself for a long time to avoid vanity.
The more a person's way of life depends on chance, the more he indulges in superstition.

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