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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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Meekness, beneficence, charity, generosity, clemency, moderation, equity bear the greatest figure among the moral qualities, and are commonly denominated the social virtues, to mark their tendency to the good of society.

 At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. To suppose, that the mere regard to the virtue of the action. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES  I have already hinted, that our sense of every kind of virtue is not natural; but that there are some virtues, that produce pleasure and approbation by means of an artifice or contrivance, which arises from the circumstances and necessity of mankind.