David Hume

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

David Hume

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

David Hume

If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.

David Hume

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

David Hume

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

David Hume

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

David Hume

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

David Hume

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

David Hume

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

David Hume