David Hume Quote

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.


Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes (ed. 1772)


Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our...

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our...

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our...

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our...