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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 supposing this hypothesis of moral philosophy should be allowed to be false, it is still evident, that pain and pleasure, if not the causes of vice and virtue, are at least inseparable from them. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. 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. The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain.