Quote by David Hume
Men often act knowingly against their interest. - David Hume

Men often act knowingly against their interest. – David Hume

Other quotes by David Hume

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. – David Hume

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design
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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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Certainty
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. – David Hume

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Beauty
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Men
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Men

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. – Robert Frost

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Men

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. – Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835

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Men

Ive only slept with men Ive been married to. How many women can make that claim? – Elizabeth Taylor

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Men

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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. – Tecumseh

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respect

You havent lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. – Vance Havner

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Death

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. Theyre both important and schools are forgetting one of them. – Robert Kiyosaki

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Education

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature