The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
ADAM SMITH
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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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.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
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