Empathy vs Sympathy

I learned that the definition of the empathy is the intellectual identification or vicarious experience of feeling, thoughts, or attitudes of another. It's the experience of another person's condition from their perspective. An example of empathy popped up while reading a speech by Thoma Jefferson on human equality and that to be able to make himself say that slaves were okay, he had to maybe tell himself  that the slaves themselves were born into it and that it was not his fault. By saying that they were born into it it helped him go from speaking a liberty and freedom of going home to his slaves. I also learned that sympathy is when when you feel of pity or sorrow for someone else misfortune.