Tag: Adam Smith
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith
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No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Adam Smith
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith