# Epigraph explained — A Treatise of Human Nature

> Chapter companion for A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume.

## What happens

The epigraph quotes Tacitus, expressing the rare fortune of times when one can think what one wants and say what one thinks.

## Key lines

> Rara temporum felicitas, ubi sentire, quae velis; & quae sentias, dicere licet.

Happy are the rare times when you may feel what you wish and say what you feel.

_This epigraph sets a tone of intellectual freedom, which Hume likely aligns with his own philosophical endeavors._

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