Treatise · Philosophical literatureOf all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.David HumeA Treatise of Human Nature · 1739★ 5.2
EssayIn contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.David HumeEssays, Moral and Political · 1741★ 4.4
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