If forced to choose between two vices, luxury and sloth, David Hume would have preferred luxury, because to banish it without curing sloth would only diminish industry.

• 如果被迫在奢侈和懒惰两害中取其一，大卫·休谟会选择奢侈，因为禁止奢侈而不消除懒惰，只会减少勤奋。