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Man Quotes by Adam Smith
- Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
- What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
- Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of…
- The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most…
- 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 first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an…
- Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence…
- 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…
- Every man lives by exchanging.
- Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
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