The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David Hume quote Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David Hume quote What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought
David Hume quote When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities
David Hume quote Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
David Hume quote The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason
David Hume quote To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty
David Hume quote Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind
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