A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
ADAM SMITHA nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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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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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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The 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.
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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.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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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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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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The game women play is men.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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