Quotes by : Adam Smith

Man an animal that makes bargains.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and....

All money is a matter of belief.

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling....

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

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace....

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of....

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor....