There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.


Essays, Moral and Political.. (ed. 1741)

David Hume Quotes

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic...

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic...

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic...

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic...