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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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It was more the overall challenge of overcoming what had become about the hardest thing I ever had to do.

 The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility.  We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness. 
Mean while it may not be amiss to observe from these definitions of natural and unnatural, that nothing can be more unphilosophical than those systems, which assert, that virtue is the same with what is natural, and vice with what is unnatural.
 
But however directly the distinction of vice and virtue may seem to flow from the immediate pleasure or uneasiness, which particular qualities cause to ourselves or others; it is easy to observe, that it has also a considerable dependence on the principle of sympathy so often insisted on.
 
For granting that morality had no foundation in nature, it must still be allowed, that vice and virtue, either from self-interest or the prejudices of education, produce in us a real pain and pleasure; and this we may observe to be strenuously asserted by the defenders of that hypothesis.
 The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue.