Adam Smith on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Adam Smith, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Adam Smith, entry #179556: "The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase."
Attributed to Adam Smith, entry #62310: "The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes."
7 Quotes by Adam Smith on Life
"The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase."
"The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes."
"In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been eminent in that profession?"
"In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for."
"In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself."
"It may indeed be doubted, whether butcher's meat is any where a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil, where butter is not to be had, it is known from experience, can, without any butcher's meat, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet."
"When the happiness or misery of others depends in any respect upon our conduct, we dare not, as self–love might suggest to us, prefer the interest of one to that of many. The man within immediately calls to us, that we value ourselves too much and other people too little, and that, by doing so, we render ourselves the proper object of the contempt and indignation of our brethren. Neither is this sentiment confined to men of extraordinary magnanimity and virtue. It is deeply impressed upon every tolerably good soldier, who feels that he would become the scorn of his companions, if he could be supposed capable of shrinking from danger, or of hesitating, either to expose or to throw away his life, when the good of the service required it."