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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable”

David Hume (spoken by Philo)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10 (Project Gutenberg #4583)

Portrait of David Hume

Philo contrasts gratuitous pleasures with gratuitous pains that serve no protective purpose.

Citation: "But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q10)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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