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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“Remorse, shame, anguish, rage, disappointment, anxiety, fear, dejection, despair; who has ever passed through life without cruel inroads from these tormentors”

David Hume (spoken by Demea)

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

Portrait of David Hume

Demea's catalogue of mental disorders, which he thinks more dismal than bodily ones.

Citation: "Remorse, shame, anguish, rage, disappointment, anxiety, fear, dejection, despair; who has ever passed through life without cruel inroads from these tormentors" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q6)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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