"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect..." - Adam Smith

🏺 Philosophy

“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

Self-interest drives progress. Understand this, and you can navigate the world more effectively.

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

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“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

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“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”

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