David Hume Quotes on Character
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With regard to politics and the character of princes and great men, I think I am very moderate. My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of persons to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.
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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. ~ Bertrand Russell