...carefully nursed and developed. Hume started mainly from a single but important concept in 1. Says Horace: Rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis, at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum. ["A peasant waits for the river to flow away, but it flows on and will so flow forever."] Epistle...

...precepts better than these, be so candid as to communicate them; if not, partake of these with me (Horace) vivendi recte qui prorogat horam, rusticus expectat...amnis; at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis arvum: he who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the yokel who waits till the river shall...

...origin, they give, at the same time, an occasion better to explain their own nature. Notes 1 Says Horace: "Rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis, at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum." Translation: "A rustic [peasant] waits on the shore For the river to flow away. But the river...

...now he goes along the darksome way from whence they say no one returns (Catullus) qui recte vivendi prorogat horam rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum: the one who postpones the hour for living aright is like the yokel who waits till the river...