Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. I may still do services to such persons as I love, and am more particularly acquainted with, without any prospect of advantage; and they may make me a return in the same manner, without any view but that of recompensing my past services. We never love or hate a son or brother for the virtue or vice we discern in ourselves; though it is evident the same qualities in him give us a very sensible pride or humility. In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue. But if we are called upon to explain what we mean by substance, and wish to avoid the vice of reasoning in a circle, the answer is by no means so easy. No virtue is more esteemed than justice, and no vice more detested than injustice; nor are there any qualities, which go farther to the fixing the character, either as amiable or odious. To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself.