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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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For whether the passion of self-interest be esteemed vicious or virtuous, it is all a case; since itself alone restrains it: So that if it be virtuous, men become social by their virtue; if vicious, their vice has the same effect.

 A $5,000 Investment in the Euro vs the Dollar, properly positioned,on 09/29/00 could have returned $12,500.00 on 10/19/00.  Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain. 
When we blame any action, in any situation, the whole complicated object, of action and situation, must form certain relations, wherein the essence of vice consists.
 Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. 

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.

 Generation, in the human race as well as among the irrational animals, depends on so many accidents--of occasion, of proper sustenance, of the laws enacted by the government of a country of vice even, that it is difficult to believe in the eternal existence of a being whose life has begun under circumstances so mean and trivial, and so entirely dependent upon our own control. But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we can infer by reason? Take any action allowed to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance.