"The mind, unexercised, finds every delight insipid and loathsome; and ere yet the body, full of noxious humours, feels the torment of its multiplied diseases, your nobler part is sensible of the invading poison, and seeks in vain to relieve its anxiety by new pleasures, which still augment the fatal malady."
The Stoic [from Essays Moral and Political]
At least 15 entries in ESTC (1742, 1748,  1753, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1764, 1768, 1770, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1784, 1793, 1800).<br>
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First published in <u>Essays, Moral and Political. Volume II.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid, near the Cross, by R. Fleming and A. Alison, 1742). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T142762">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Past Masters and Online Library of Liberty. Reading <u>Essays, Moral, Political and Literary</u>, rev. ed. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1987). The Liberty Fund editor, Eugene F. Miller, takes the 1777 edition of Hume's essays as his copy text. 