The Theory of Moral Sentiments to Which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages Quotes

“To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments to Which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages

“When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments to Which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages

“Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments to Which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages