Smith embraces stoicism with a small 's' for private, selfish misfortunes—approving self-command in bearing one's own losses such as a lost limb—but holds that stoicism can be overdone and improper in cases like a parent's grief over a dead child, where seeming insensible is off-putting; the most admirable person joins both the amiable virtues (compassion, entering into others' feelings) and the respectable virtues (self-command, containing one's own concerns), which are complementary because being humane requires repressing one's own pressing needs.