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“Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.”

— David Hume

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Wikiquote: David Hume
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Part 1, Section 1

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Hume, David. (n.d.). Wikiquote: David Hume. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume

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