Hume's most classic saying is as follows:
1. Overflowing genius is like fertile soil. If it is not cultivated, it may produce weeds but not grapes and olives for people to enjoy.
2. When we despise toil, danger, and death for the sake of public happiness, when we ennoble life by sacrificing our lives for the good of our country, toil, danger, and death itself will It looks beautiful and moving. Habits of thought are not formed in childhood. It will make him lose the ability to think for the rest of his life.
3. Nature has endowed human beings with countless desires and needs, but has given him weak means to alleviate these needs. Only society can make up for a person's shortcomings.
4. Overflowing genius is like fertile soil. If it is not cultivated, it may produce weeds instead of grapes and olives for people to enjoy.
5. Good times make our energy idle and useless, making us unable to feel our own strength, but obstacles awaken this strength and use it.
6. No matter what kind of talent a person is endowed with, if he does not know that he has this talent and does not form a plan suitable for his talent, that talent will be completely useless to him.
7. It is labor itself that constitutes the main factor in the happiness you pursue. Any enjoyment that is not obtained through hard work will soon become boring and uninteresting.
8. Good times make energy idle and useless, making us unable to feel our own strength, but obstacles awaken this strength and use it.
9. It is labor itself that constitutes the main factor in the happiness you pursue. Any enjoyment that is not obtained through hard work will soon become boring and uninteresting.
10. It is generally recognized that the actions of human beings are very consistent in all countries and generations, and the principles and functions of human nature have not changed.