Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my cre… - David Hume

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Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a being which, were it to continue, would become ineligible: but I thank providence, both for the good which I have already enjoyed, and for the power with which I am endowed of escaping the ills that threaten me.

David Hume

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David Hume (7 May 1711, N.S. [April 26, O.S.] – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist.

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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