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• To 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.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Perfection, Selfishness

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Happy, Pulse

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• The game women play is men.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Play, Games

  Adam Smith (2015). “The Money Game”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

  Adam Smith

  Science, Flames, Enthusiasm

  The Wealth of Nations Bk V, Ch. 1

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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.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Ruins, Rich

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.11, conclusion.

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• Every man lives by exchanging.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Economics, Trade

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.31, VM eBooks

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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?

  Adam Smith

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".

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• It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

  Adam Smith

  Progressive Taxation, Rich, Economics

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.355

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• I have no faith in political arithmetic.

  Adam Smith

  Faith, Math, Political

  "Wealth of Nations". Book by Adam Smith, March 9, 1776.

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• Defense is superior to opulence.

  Adam Smith

  Opulence, Defense, Economy

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• The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

  Adam Smith

  Minorities, Rewards, Fool

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith

  Life, Success, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

  Adam Smith

  Fear, Vices, Excess

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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.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.299

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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.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Men, Economic Inequality

  Adam Smith (1814). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan”, p.80

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• Man, an animal that makes bargains.

  Adam Smith

  Animal, Men, Agreement

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• Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

  Adam Smith

  Force, Beneficence

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

  Adam Smith

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

  Adam Smith

  People, Age, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.169

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• On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

  Adam Smith

  Cities, Progress, Valleys

  Adam Smith (1978). “Powers of Mind”

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• Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

  Adam Smith

  Corn, Silver

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.139

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• It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

  Adam Smith

  Believe, Age, Done

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

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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.

  Adam Smith

  Luxury, People, Expenses

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.473

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• He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

  Adam Smith

  Ignorance, Invisible Hand, Hands

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Law

  "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, Chapter XI, Part III, Conclusion of the Chapter, (p. 292), 1776.

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