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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.
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The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. But to make the matter still more certain, I alter the object; and instead of vice and virtue, make the trial upon beauty and deformity, riches and poverty, power and servitude. - It is impossible, therefore, that the character of natural and unnatural can ever, in any sense, mark the boundaries of vice and virtue.
For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. If you missed out on .COM, here is your chance with .BIZ. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL | For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. |