The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

however, there is a mixture of love, but can never be regarded with hatred and aversion, nor even with contempt, unless by the most brutal and worthless of man|kind. It is always with concern, with sympathy and kindness, that we blame them for the extravagance of their attach|ment. There is a helplessness in the cha|racter of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. There is nothing in itself which renders it ei|ther ungraceful or disagreeable. We only regret that it is unfit for the world, be|cause the world is unworthy of it, and be|cause it must expose the person who is en|dowed with it as a prey to the perfidy and in|gratitude of insinuating falshood, and to a thousand pains and uneasinesses, which, of all men, he the least deserves to feel, and which generally too he is, of all men, the least capable of supporting. It is quite otherwise with hatred and resent|ment. Too violent a propensity to those detestable passions, renders a person the object of universal dread and abhorrence, who, like a wild beast, ought, we think, to be hunted out of all civil society.