Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
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Virtuous Life Is a Better Recipe for a Happy Life Than Violent Life
"To reduce life to exact rule and method is commonly a painful, off-to fruitless occupation," he writes. "We lose all the pleasure of the game by our Flem and carelessness." He adds that if a man be liable to a vice or imperfection, it may happen that a good quality will render him more miserable. The philosopher's final words: "I really felt by the end here that he redeemed himself from some of the like weird, like, it is certain that like, yeah?"
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