Quote by David Hume
Men often act knowingly against their interest. - David Hume

Men often act knowingly against their interest. – David Hume

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – David Hume

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington

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All mens gains are the fruit of venturing. – Herodotus

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. – Henry David Thoreau

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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their childrens and grandchildrens fates, are decided. – Hillary Clinton

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. – Virgil

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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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