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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss.

 In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. But to make the matter still more certain, I alter the object; and instead of vice and virtue, make the trial upon beauty and deformity, riches and poverty, power and servitude. TAKE NOTE THAT THE FUNDS WERE DEPOSITED AS FAMILY VALUABLES FOR SAFE KEEPING IN MY NAME AS THE NEXT OF KIN.  
And though our judgments concerning the origin of any vice or virtue, be not so certain as those concerning their degrees; yet, since the question in this case regards not any philosophical origin of an obligation, but a plain matter of fact, it is not easily conceived how we can fall into an error.
 For whatever may be the case, with regard to all kinds of vice and virtue, it is certain, that rights, and obligations, and property, admit of no such insensible gradation, but that a man either has a full and perfect property, or none at all; and is either entirely obliged to perform any action, or lies under no manner of obligation.