Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
ADAM SMITHThe first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.
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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
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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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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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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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