Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to… — Adam Smith Copy Share
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we… — Adam Smith Copy Share
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