There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
Adam SmithStichwörter: civilization hope civilisation ruin decline nation
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 SmithStichwörter: moral-sentiments
... the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility...It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.
Adam SmithWherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
Adam SmithThe learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
Adam Smith...a man within the breast...
Adam SmithThe interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public
Adam SmithStichwörter: government business
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.
Adam SmithMan is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam SmithA nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.
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