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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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In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery.

 To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. All the pity and concern which we have for the miserable sufferers by this vice, turns against the person guilty of it, and produces a stronger hatred than we are sensible of on any other occasion. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. 

Thus the good and bad qualities of our actions and manners constitute virtue and vice, and determine our personal character, than which nothing operates more strongly on these passions.

  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.