Author of quotes: Adam Smith. Page 1

The first thing you should know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

We are only one of many, in any case not better than any other in it.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Virtue is more dangerous than Vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Within one paradigm, it is difficult to imagine any other paradigm.

Any sheep shepherd considers a genius, and the dog - the protector of the herd, although the owner and the dog eats the sheep than the wolves.

Man is an animal that commits the transaction: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

How many days of work, how many nights without sleep, how much effort of the mind, how many hopes and fears, how many long lives of hard study made here in small typographic fonts and cramped in a small space surrounding us shelves.

By pursuing his own interest, he (the entrepreneur) is often more eectively interests of society than when consciously seeks to do so.

For the sake of righteous ideas Russian people are happy to work, even while in custody, and then they do not feel the prisoners - they find freedom.

A great nation never poorer because of the extravagance and imprudence of individuals, but they often get poorer as the result of wastefulness and imprudence of the government.

To teach people to love justice, we have to show them the results of injustice.