Hume/people

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“If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)