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But whatever may be the cause of sympathy, or however it may be excited, nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary. Those who are fond of deducing all our sentiments from certain refinements of self-love, think themselves at no loss to account, according to their own principles, both for this pleasure and this pain. – Adam Smith, The Theory of moral sentiments ： 1. Part 1 Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections ： 1.1. Section I Of the Sense of Propriety ： 1.1.2. Chap. II Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy 《しかし、共感の原因が何であろうと、共感がどのように引き起こされようと、私達自身の胸の内すべての感情に対する仲間意識を他人に観ること以上に嬉しいことはないし、これとは反対に見えることほど衝撃を受けることもない。利己心を少しばかり純化することによって、私達のすべての感情を演繹（えんえき）したがる人々は、この喜びも、この苦しみも、自分自身の原理に従って説明することに何も困らないと思っている》― アダム・スミス『道徳感情論』：第 1 部 ３つの部分から構成される行為の妥当性について：第 1 編 行為の適宜性について：第 2 章 相互共感の喜びについて Man, say they, conscious of his own weakness, and of th...

The horror which they conceive at the misery of those wretches affects that particular part in themselves more than any other; because that horror arises from conceiving what they themselves would suffer, if they really were the wretches whom they are looking upon, and if that particular part in themselves was actually affected in the same miserable manner. The very force of this conception is sufficient, in their feeble frames, to produce that itching or uneasy sensation complained of. Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest. – Adam Smith, The Theory of moral sentiments ： 1. Part 1 Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections ： 1.1. Section I Of the Sense of Propriety ： 1.1.1. Chap. I Of Sympathy 《あのような不幸な人達の惨（みじ）めさを目の当たりにして抱く恐怖は、他のどの部分よりも自分たちの特定の部分に強く作...