“That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.”
Adam Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”
Adam Smith
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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.”
Adam Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Business
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
Adam Smith
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“With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.”
Adam Smith
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“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.”
Adam Smith
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“Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.”
Adam Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humankind
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“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”
Adam Smith
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“Man, an animal that makes bargains.”
Adam Smith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Agreement
