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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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The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion.

 The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. 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. 

We shall begin with examining the passions of pride and humility, and shall consider the vice or virtue that lies in their excesses or just proportion.