Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.
Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.