The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

Adam Smith
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  1. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

  2. The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between...

  3. There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

  4. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

  5. Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

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