He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
— David Hume Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
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The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
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