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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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As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.

 SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. 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.