Quote of David Hume - A propensity to hope and joy...
Biography - David Hume:
Scottish philosopher, historian and economist.
Born: 1711 - Died: 1776
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1711 - Died: 1776
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: wealth
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Quotes about hope:
Quotes about fear:
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Quotes for: joy
The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Quotes about poverty:
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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