“When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself, as it were, into two persons; and that I, the examiner and judge, represent a different character from that other I, the person whose conduct is examined into and judged of.”

—  Adam Smith, book The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part III

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