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Beneficence should be recommended but not enforced, while justice is the pillar of society
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What Adam Smith actually said
- Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790)
It is the ornament which embellishes, not the foundation which supports the building, and which it was, therefore, sufficient to recommend, but by no means necessary to impose. Justice, on the contrary, is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice.
Where this was said
↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org
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