T 3.3.4.5
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The principal reason why natural abilities are esteem'd, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possess'd of them. 'Tis impossible to execute any design with success, where it is not conducted with prudence and discretion; nor will the goodness of our intentions alone suffice to procure us a happy issue to our enterprizes. Men are superior to beasts principally by the superiority of their reason; and they are the degrees of the same faculty, which set such an infinite difference betwixt one man and another. All the advantages of art are owing to human reason; and where fortune is not very capricious, the most considerable part of these advantages must fall to the share of the prudent and sagacious.
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| Garral 2007 | (T 606-614) T 3.3.3.8 to T 3.3.5.2 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …alent and virtue elicit more or less the same sympathetic moral feelings in the spectator (T 606-614); second, that there… |
| Greco 2015 | T 3.3.4-5 T 3.3.4.1 to T 3.3.5.6 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n Book 3 of the Treatise and in the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (see esp. T 3.3.4-5; EPM 6-8), one clea… |