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Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that since vice and virtue are not discoverable merely by reason, or the comparison of ideas, it must be by means of some impression or sentiment they occasion, that we are able to mark the difference betwixt them. The passions do not always follow our corrections; but these corrections serve sufficiently to regulate our abstract notions, and are alone regarded, when we pronounce in general concerning the degrees of vice and virtue. Nothing is more disagreeable than a man's over-weaning conceit of himself: Every one almost has a strong propensity to this vice: No one can well distinguish in himself betwixt the vice and virtue, or be certain, that his esteem of his own merit is well-founded: For these reasons, all direct expressions of this passion are condemned; nor do we make any exception to this rule in favour of men of sense and merit. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence.