![]() 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. ![]() 6 Adam Smith Quotes on Money and Richness Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. Individual ambition serves the common good. 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. Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back. “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” Adam Smith 8 Wise Adam Smith Quotes to Ponder Upon The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” Adam Smith Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness. “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. 8 Adam Smith Quotes on Life and Happiness Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself. Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another. A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of its people. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. ![]() Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. 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. There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. Top 10 Most Famous Adam Smith Quotes (BEST) The first thing you have to know is yourself.
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