Hume

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“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Avarice, the spur of industry.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Consciousness never deceives.... We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)