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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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Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy.

 For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. Though we refuse to natural abilities the title of virtues, we must allow, that they procure the love and esteem of mankind; that they give a new lustre to the other virtues; and that a man possessed of them is much more intitled to our good-will and services, than one entirely void of them.  PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL Even when the vice of inhumanity rises not to this extreme degree, our sentiments concerning it are very much influenced by reflections on the harm that results from it.