Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
ADAM SMITHThe learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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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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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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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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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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The rate of profit is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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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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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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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.
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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