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.


A treatise of human nature [by D. Hume]. (ed. 1817)

David Hume Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...