3 December 2020 Adam Smith 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.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith 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.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
3 December 2020 Adam Smith Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
