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Tag: Adam Smith

Adam Smith | society

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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Adam Smith | science

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.

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Adam Smith science

Adam Smith | science

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

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Adam Smith peace

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.

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Adam Smith Nature

Adam Smith | nature

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.

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Adam Smith Nature

Adam Smith | nature

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

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Adam Smith money

Adam Smith | money

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.

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Adam Smith money

Adam Smith | money

All money is a matter of belief.

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Adam Smith money

Adam Smith | money

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.