Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
ADAM SMITHLabor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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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The game women play is men.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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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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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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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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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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No complaint is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
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I am a beau in nothing but my books.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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