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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.

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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.

 Your financial past does not have to be your financial future. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices. WHETHER IT IS BY MEANS OF OUR IDEAS OR IMPRESSIONS WE DISTINGUISH BETWIXT VICE AND VIRTUE, AND PRONOUNCE AN ACTION BLAMEABLE OR PRAISEWORTHY? This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. 
But as authors do not commonly use this precaution, I shall presume to recommend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attention would subvert all the vulgar systems of morality, and let us see, that the distinction of vice and virtue is not founded merely on the relations of objects, nor is perceived by reason.