2.] explain that false sensation of liberty, which make, us imagine we can perform any thing, that is not very dangerous or destructive.

Whenever any other person is under no strong obligations of interest to forbear any pleasure, we judge from experience, that the pleasure will exist, and that he will probably obtain it.

But when ourselves are in that situation, we judge from an illusion of the fancy, that the pleasure is still closer and more immediate.

The will seems to move easily every way, and casts a shadow or image of itself, even to that side, on which it did not settle.

By means of this image the enjoyment seems to approach nearer to us, and gives us the same lively satisfaction, as if it were perfectly certain and unavoidable.
It will now be easy to draw this whole reasoning to a paint, and to prove, that when riches produce any pride or vanity in their possessors, as they never fail so do, it is only by means of a double relation of impressions and ideas.