Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
ADAM SMITHMan 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.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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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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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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I have no faith in political arithmetic.
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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
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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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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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Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.
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The game women play is men.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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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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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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