David Hume Quotes about Virtue

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Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

David Hume

Self, Denial, Virtue

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

David Hume

Age, Spirit, Virtue

David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.20

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

David Hume

Vices, Morality, Virtue

David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

David Hume

Food, Poison, Virtue

David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.314

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

David Hume

Men, Pay, Virtue

David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

David Hume Quotes about Virtue

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