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

only in this respect, that both aim at really being what is honourable and noble, but even in that respect in which the love of true glory resembles what is properly called vani|ty, some reference to the sentiments of others. The man of the greatest magnanimity, who desires virtue for its own sake, and is most in|different about what actually are the opinions of mankind with regard to him, is still, how|ever, delighted with the thoughts of what they should be, with the consciousness that tho' he may neither be honoured nor ap|plauded, he is still the proper object of ho|nour and applause, and that if mankind were cool and candid and consistent with them|selves, and properly informed of the motives and circumstances of his conduct, they would not fail to honour and applaud him. Tho' he despises the opinions which are actu|ally entertained of him, yet he has the highest value for those which ought to be entertained of him. That he might think himself worthy of those honourable sentiments, and, whatever was the idea which other men might conceive of his character, that when he should put himself in their situation, and consider, not what was, but what ought to be their opinion, he should always have the
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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