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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

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David Hume

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

May 7th, 1711 - August 25th, 1776

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