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Drawn from what Adam Smith said
humility Knowing what you do not know: whether it makes you learn and decide better, or costs you the self-belief that gets things done.
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
Through the whole of his life he pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power, and which, if in the extremity of old age he should at last attain to it, he will find to be in no respect preferable to that humble security and contentment which he had abandoned for it.
Where this was said
↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org
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