What Adam Smith thinks about humility

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Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790); held the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University from 1752 to 1764; author of The Wealth of Nations.

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1. c. 1759–1777

   Our readingThe ambitious sacrifice a tranquillity they already have for an imagined repose that proves no better

   happiness

   Their wordsThrough 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.

   ↗The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; Dublin printing of 1777)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book