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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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Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity.

 The software they're trying to ban!  Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. Suppose, that two persons of the same trade should seek employment in a town, that is not able to maintain both, it is plain the success of one is perfectly incompatible with that of the other, and that whatever is for the interest of either is contrary to that of his rival, and so vice versa. To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself. But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we can infer by reason? Take any action allowed to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance.