The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
As a man of civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a garrison, and is even in danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business,
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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