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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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And indeed we may observe, that the natural abilities, no more than the other virtues, produce not, all of them, the same kind of approbation.

 All lovers of virtue (and such we all are in speculation, however we may degenerate in practice) must certainly be pleased to see moral distinctions derived from so noble a source, which gives us a just notion both of the generosity and capacity of human nature. We may presume the like with regard to all the other virtues, which have a like tendency to the public good. The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain.