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As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

Adam Smith
Men, Ideas, Empathy
Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.11, Imprint Academic
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.