Hume

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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 (1711–1776)

    The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: and has often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

    —David Hume (1711–1776)