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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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But as there is naturally no inclination to observe promises, distinct from a sense of their obligation; it follows, that fidelity is no natural virtue, and that promises have no force, antecedent to human conventions,

 Virtue and wisdom in their perfect purity are ideas. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. But if the success be on our side, our commander has all the opposite good qualities, and is a pattern of virtue, as well as of courage and conduct. Any artifice of politicians may assist nature in the producing of those sentiments, which she suggests to us, and may even on some occasions, produce alone an approbation or esteem for any particular action; but it is impossible it should be the sole cause of the distinction we make betwixt vice and virtue. For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue.