He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
ADAM SMITHEvery man lives by exchanging.
More Adam Smith Quotes
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
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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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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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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
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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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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 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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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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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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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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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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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
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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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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
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We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
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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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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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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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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
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