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Adam Smith, a classic quotation in the wealth of nations

1. Never beg for mercy from others, but appeal to their self-interest; Never talk to others about their own needs, but only talk about their benefits

2. The exchange tendency is motivated by self-interest and leads to division of labor.

3. Economic participants are driven by self-interest, and this invisible hand in the market guides this self-interest to promote the overall economic welfare.

4. Division of labor is the main reason to improve labor productivity.

5. The influence of labor skills is greater than the proportion of useful labor, which can be shown by the more products in civilized society.

6. Poverty will undoubtedly make people not want to get married, but it may not necessarily make people not get married.

7. People are born and will always be selfish animals.

8. Businessmen don't have to complain about the decrease in profits, thinking that this is the decline of business, and the decrease in profits is the natural result of business prosperity.

9. Things with great use value often have little or no exchange value; On the contrary, exchanging things of great value often has little or no use value. Goldsmith's famous saying

Goldsmith's famous saying

1. The world belongs to me. Goldsmith

2. We can only learn very little about the world from books. Goldsmith

3. No matter how vast the sea is, it must be connected with the land. Goldsmith

4. The greatest glory of life lies not in never failing, but in rising repeatedly. Goldsmith

5. The real function of language is not so much to express our needs as to hide our needs. Goldsmith

6. Like the shimmering light, I hope to light up the road of my life. The darker the night, the more dazzling it radiates. Goldsmith

7. No matter where you are, you must create and seek your own happiness. Goldsmith

8. The most contemptible thing for a man is to marry for money. Goldsmith

9. The law always ravages the destitute, while the rich always dominate the law. Goldsmith

1. A book full of fallacies may be an interesting book. And a book without any errors may be a very boring book. Goldsmith

11. For philosophers, nothing is trivial. Goldsmith

12. We can only learn very little about the world from books. Goldsmith, Montaigne, Hubbard, Zhou Guoping, Classic Quotations on Life

1. A person who has never stepped on the road with his own feet will never find a road that truly belongs to him.

2. In this godless world, who can say that he has penetrated all the detours and desperate situations, so he is no longer confused and does not need to look for it? I will always be confused and always look for it. Confusion is my honesty, and seeking is my courage.

3. Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you love, and the other is getting what you love. Zhou Guoping: There are two great joys in life. One is that you don't get what you love, so you can pursue and create. One is to get what you love, so you can taste and experience it.

4. What we are most familiar with is often what we know least about.

5. There can be no love, but if there is no longing for love, where can there be youth? There can be no understanding, but if there is no expectation of understanding, where can there be creation? You can wait for everything, but if you don't wait, where is life?

6. The only sure waiting in life is the inevitable death. However, people seem to forget this and wait for something else, even to the death. I am sad and satisfied with this situation.

7. In the mythical era, God explained everything and arranged everything for people. With the decline of myth and the rise of philosophy, man has to explain and arrange everything by himself. He almost found himself powerless while he was full of ambition. Facing all beings living like animals, the awakened wisdom feels a kind of divine happiness. Facing the universe, it realized its limitations and had to bear the pain caused by the lack of divinity. Man can't be a god without God, or in Emerson's words, he is just a broken god.

8. Westerners have repeatedly stressed that wisdom is not knowledge or erudition. In a learned man, all he has is limited and temporary knowledge, and wisdom really wants to grasp infinity and eternity. Due to human limitations, this goal can never be truly achieved.

9. Although people's wisdom has its limitations, it is not futile to love wisdom. Whether the fruit of wisdom seems to be qualitative: in theory-"I know I know nothing"; In practice-"I need nothing". However, reaching this state, in the humble and indifferent philosopher's chest, the pain and happiness of wisdom have melted into a harmonious peace.

1. In the vast universe, the birth of any creature is accidental, but the departure is inevitable; The encounter between one creature and another is always a thousand years, and the separation is indeed beyond redemption. After all, who is different from who is the end of the world in this empty world?

11. In ordinary daily life, you have become accustomed to getting along with the people you love, as if the days would go on indefinitely. Suddenly one day, it occurred to you that time was flying by. Is irretrievably taking you, your loved ones and everything you have together. Then, a tender feeling rises in your heart, trying to protect your lover from the plunder of time. You also deeply feel how precious these simplest happiness in ordinary life are, with fleeting and amazing beauty ...

12. Just like what makes the desert look beautiful is a well hidden somewhere, because there is an inexhaustible source of love hidden in the heart, the most desolate desert has also turned into a beautiful landscape.

13. A founder announces platitudes in a tone and announces hearsay as an inventor.

14. If men and women no longer trust and care about each other's souls, their bodies are close in vain, and their souls are always strange, they will really become homeless and lonely souls on the earth. If Adam and Eve no longer have true feelings for each other or even hope for true feelings, they will really be expelled from the Garden of Eden.

15, many things, today, when we can cope without them, we find out how unnecessary they are. We used to use them, not because we needed them, but because we had them.

16. In an era of unprecedented spiritual devaluation, if a person still insists on being a "spiritual aristocrat" and is comfortable with material poverty with spiritual wealth, I believe that he is not for vanity, but for spiritual nobility and honesty.

17. Those who wrote famous books or made other outstanding achievements when they were celebrities, so they are remembered in history, and the power of judgment lies in history; Stars are people who appear frequently in front of the public and are therefore familiar to the public, and the power of judgment lies with the public.

18. A loner is either a beast or a god. -Aristotle

19. People often regard communication as a kind of ability, but ignore that solitude is also a kind of ability, and it is more important than communication in a certain sense. On the other hand, it is a pity to be unsociable, and it is a serious defect to be intolerant of loneliness.

2 To be happy, one must be neither too smart nor too stupid. This state between cleverness and stupidity is called wisdom of life.

21. Pain is the catalyst of character, which makes the strong stronger, the weak weaker, the benevolent more benevolent, the violent more violent, the wise wiser and the fool more stupid.

22. Suffering can stimulate vitality or kill it; Can temper the will, but also can destroy the will; Can enlighten wisdom, but also can blind wisdom; You can exalt your personality or belittle it-it all depends on the quality of the suffering people.

23. Buddha's wisdom rejects love as the root of pain and stifles the will of life; Human wisdom should accept pain as the inevitable result of love and turn it into the wealth of life.

24. Humor is relaxed and profound. In the face of serious shallowness, a cynical smile was deeply revealed.

25. For a proud heart, the greatest humiliation is not being envied, but being jealous of others, because this emotion exposes a fact that he is most unwilling to admit: he feels inferior.

26. There are different reasons for silence: if one refuses to speak, it is obedience or resentment; Because you dare not say it, it is cowardice or resentment; Because it is inconvenient to say it, it is polite or hypocritical; Because it is prudent or sophisticated not to say it; Because needless to say, it is tacit understanding or separation; Because you don't talk about it, it is pride or detachment.

27. If a month loses money, it can make a profit again, and if the flowers fade, it can bloom again. However, it is not known whether we can meet again after parting. Thanks for the profit and loss, the flowers and the moon remain the same, and people are old after several times of separation. The reason why life is the most bitter separation is that separation makes people feel the impermanence of life.

28. Forget everything you once had, forget the losses you suffered, just as you just came to this world naked, and you said to yourself, "Let me start from the beginning!" Instead of sitting on the ruins and crying, you patted your ass, walked forward, came to a clearing and began to rebuild. You don't even rebuild what was lost, because then you still care about your loss, and you still leave your heart on the ruins. You have to move forward with your heart. Although you are bankrupt, you are still an entrepreneur. Although you are lovelorn, you are still a first lover. You really regard the place where you stand alone at the moment as the starting point of your life.

29. Be sincere once in a while. People who enter the role of sincerity are most easily moved by their sincerity.

3, mature, but not sophisticated, still a childlike innocence; Success, but not vanity, still a normal heart.

31. I can't help admiring any outstanding talent, even if it is on my enemies.

32. A lie repeated ten times may not become truth, but a truth repeated ten times will definitely become nonsense.

33. Who is old, the world or me?

34, the day will not disappear, because it is hidden in the heart of the night.

35. A mature person will not deliberately seek external rewards, thinking that deliberately artificial rewards are sometimes a fool for people.

36. Eyes are like water, but they are clearer and more transparent than water; Eyes like the sea, but wider than the sea. It seems that the world in his eyes is much deeper and farther than the world outside his eyes.

37. A truly enlightened person can gain a vision and wisdom from seeing through the world of mortals, so that he can stay in the world of mortals without being confused by them, and he will remain detached after joining the WTO.

38. For a person who is full of enthusiasm for life, happiness lies in exhausting all possibilities in the world to the maximum, including difficulties and adversity. "Look at the color of the world, listen to the voice of the world, look at the freshness of the world, and talk about the tan of the world" and live happily according to your true nature. "Sages are ordinary people who are willing to feel at ease"

39. Whose experience is not ordinary and ordinary? The difference of inner experience has laid a huge gap between people.

4. In the picture of life, the dream is also a real stroke.

41. All the highest rewards and punishments are not external, but the spiritual consequences caused by the actor himself. Nobleness is the highest reward for the noble, and meanness is the greatest punishment for the despicable.

42. People with healthy nature are easy to understand each other; People who are born sick are often separated from each other.

43. Interests often fight in the name of faith.

44. In the state of free competition, natural selection eliminates the inferior; In the autocratic state, artificial selection has eliminated the best. Only the mediocre will survive forever and have the most lasting vitality.

45. Great wisdom will be modest, great goodness will be tolerant, and great pride will often be humble and peaceful. People with great sense of accomplishment must also have the mind to tolerate everything and be tolerant of all beings. The little wise man is aggressive and the little good man haggles over every ounce. Only a little pride can reveal an arrogant face.

46. Humor is a healthy, witty and tolerant smile from a wounded heart. Humor only comes from detachment. The deepest humor is a smile from a fatally wounded heart.

47. Self-mockery is a condescending view of one's weaknesses. Self-mockery is a mixture of superiority and helplessness. Self-mockery makes the self-mocker superior to himself. Smart people laugh at their own mistakes. < p In a contest, the emotional party must be at a disadvantage. How many of all kinds of strong emotions, angry or painful gestures can persist if there is no audience present.

49. As long as one doesn't hate himself, one shouldn't be afraid of boredom. If he doesn't read other books, he just reads the book of his own soul carefully.

5. He is irresponsible for his own life. There is no seriousness. Mediocrity is the greatest lack of seriousness. The highest seriousness often seems cynical. It is the highest wisdom to do what others do seriously in laughter. < P > 51. It is people who give people the greatest happiness. People are the ones who give people the greatest pain ..

52. Wisdom is stateless. All mankind * * * has created excellent cultural heritage in the history of all ethnic groups.

53. The self-love of excellent souls actually stems from the universal love for human spirit.

54. Every question has at least two opposite answers.

55. When "the state has no way" I'm afraid of others' Excellence because of jealousy.

58. Unfinished is the normal state of life and a positive attitude.

59. All great works are never finished in essence.

6. The most touching love seems to have no happy ending, and love is also perfect because it is unfinished. "Look at things like a dead person and treat every day as the last."

61. Illness will make people more humane, lighter in merit and more human. The taste of love and friendship is more delicate.

62. Facing death with dignity is the last glory of life.

63. Everyone is a secret to others. "You don't need to look at other people's faces and look into other people's hearts". People who love each other just "walk side by side in the dark". Each strives to pursue the light in his heart, and feels this effort and encourages each other.

64. A person who places his own value entirely on the understanding of others.