
Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle. Übersetzt von Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten. Leipzig 1791 S. 3 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2P0AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." - The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I Section I Chapter I: Of Sympathy (Der erste Satz des Buches). en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments/Part_I
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)