Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. David Hume Read Quote
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. David Hume Read Quote
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. David Hume Read Quote
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. David Hume Read Quote
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. David Hume Read Quote
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. David Hume Read Quote
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. David Hume Read Quote
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’. David Hume Read Quote
