Adam Smith

(24 votes)   On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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(14 votes)   To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

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(202 votes)   Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Adam Smith
1723-1790, Scottish Economist

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(149 votes)   People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

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(124 votes)   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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.

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(97 votes)   The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

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1723-1790, Scottish Economist

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(91 votes)   The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

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1723-1790, Scottish Economist

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(67 votes)   To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

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(37 votes)   People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

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(37 votes)   The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

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(31 votes)   The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

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(23 votes)   Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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(22 votes)   All money is a matter of belief.

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(19 votes)   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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(16 votes)   Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

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