On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)
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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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The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
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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.
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All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776)
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