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  • Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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  • That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

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    Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.57

  • Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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Adam Smith

  • Born: June 5, 1723
  • Died: July 17, 1790
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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