This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Quote by David Hume

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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most...

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most...

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of...

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of...

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages,...

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages,...

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a...

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a...

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable...

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable...

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but...

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates...

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits...

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits...

Avarice, the spur of industry

Avarice, the spur of industry

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a...

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike...

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike...

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult...

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult...