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Much Quotes by David Hume
- A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full…
- In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.…
- There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or…
- But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper…
- And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,…
- Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
- The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.
- Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected…
- Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
- All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of…
- Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief…
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