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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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The utility and advantage of any quality to ourselves is a source of virtue, as well as its agreeableness to others; and it is certain, that nothing is more useful to us in the conduct of life, than a due degree of pride, which makes us sensible of our own merit, and gives us a confidence and assurance in all our projects and enterprizes. In another sense of the word; as no principle of the human mind is more natural than a sense of virtue; so no virtue is more natural than justice. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. This, no doubt, is to be regarded as an idle fiction; but yet deserves our attention, because nothing can more evidently shew the origin of those virtues, which are the subjects of our present enquiry. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility.