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54 Quotes by Adam Smith

Adam Smith has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of…
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the…
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but…
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and…
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the…
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by…
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love…
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found…
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

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