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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 it is certain, that self-love, when it acts at its liberty, instead of engaging us to honest actions, is the source of all injustice and violence; nor can a man ever correct those vices, without correcting and restraining the natural movements of that appetite.

 When we blame any action, in any situation, the whole complicated object, of action and situation, must form certain relations, wherein the essence of vice consists. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. 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.  PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL 
In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery.