Quote by Adam Smith
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our s

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

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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Labor Day
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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. – Adam Smith

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Money
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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 Smith

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Business
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Other Quotes from
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse

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Nature

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. – Tennessee Williams

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Nature

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

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Nature

If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham

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Nature

Random Quotes

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. – Thomas Reid

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Wisdom

Gifts make their way through stone walls. – Proverb

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Gifts

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. – Author unknown (Thanks, Eric)

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Vegetarianism

All I know about humor is that I dont know anything about it. – Fred Allen

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Humor