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.
ADAM SMITHTo 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.
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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That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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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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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
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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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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
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An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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