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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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All the difference is, that our superior reason may serve to discover the vice or virtue, and by that means may augment the blame or praise: But still this discovery supposes a separate being in these moral distinctions, and a being, which depends only on the will and appetite, and which, both in thought and reality, may be distinguished from the reason.

 Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness. We may presume the like with regard to all the other virtues, which have a like tendency to the public good. For whatever may be the case, with regard to all kinds of vice and virtue, it is certain, that rights, and obligations, and property, admit of no such insensible gradation, but that a man either has a full and perfect property, or none at all; and is either entirely obliged to perform any action, or lies under no manner of obligation. It is the same case, if justice, according to the system of certain philosophers, should be esteemed an artificial and not a natural virtue. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. We fancy Ourselves more happy, as well as more virtuous or beautiful, when we appear so to others; but are still more ostentatious of our virtues than of our pleasures.