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亚当·斯密
经济学的主要创立者
亚当·斯密(Adam Smith),1723年6月5日出生在苏格兰法夫郡(County Fife)的柯卡尔迪(Kirkcaldy) ,英国经济学家、哲学家、作家,经济学的主要创立者。
The first thing you have to do is to persuade mankind that you are their friend, and that you are acting for their good.
你首先要做的是说服人类你是他们的朋友,并且你是在为他们的利益行事。
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this—no dog exchanges bones with another.
人是会讨价还价的动物:没有其他动物会这样做——没有狗会与另一只狗交换骨头。
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The wise and virtuous man is at all times willing that his own private interest should be sacrificed to the public interest of his own particular order or society.
明智而有德行的人在任何时候都愿意为了自己特定阶层或社会的公共利益而牺牲自己的私人利益。
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
美德比恶行更令人畏惧,因为它的过度不受良心的约束。
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The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.
人类生活中痛苦和混乱的主要来源,似乎来自于高估了一种持久状况与另一种持久状况之间的差异。
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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
无论一个人被认为多么自私,他的本性中显然存在某些原则,这些原则使他对别人的命运感兴趣,并将他们的幸福视为自己的必要,尽管他从中除了看到它时的快乐外一无所得。
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The man of system... is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from it.
制度主义者……往往自以为非常聪明;他常常如此迷恋于自己设想的政府理想计划的所谓完美,以至于不能容忍对其有丝毫的偏离。
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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.
如果一个社会中的大部分成员贫穷而悲惨,那么这个社会就谈不上繁荣幸福。
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
我们期望的晚餐并非来自屠夫、酿酒师或面包师的恩惠,而是来自他们对自身利益的关注。
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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.
以物易物、互通有无的倾向是人类共有的,也是其他动物所没有的。
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
一切东西的真实价格,即对于想要获得它的人来说真正付出的代价,是获得它所付出的辛劳和麻烦。
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对任何大国来说,其国家财富中最大、最重要、最持久的部分都是土地。
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人这一辈子,都不会完全满意自己的地位,所以总想改善自己的处境。
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无论什么地方,消费情况一般都是由赚取花费的难易程度决定的,而不是由真实消费能力决定的。
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农业投资,时各种资本用途中最有利于社会的一种投资。
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一个人轻视危险和奢望成功的心理,在选择职业的青年时期最活跃。青年人对幸运的希望,要大于对不幸的恐惧。
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分工出现之后,劳动生产力得到了最大的增进,运用劳动时的熟练程度、技巧和判断力也得以加强。
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因为贫困,人们无疑不想结婚,却未必不结婚。贫困似乎对生育有利。贫困虽然对生育有利,却对抚养子女极其不利。
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无论从时间还是地点上比较,劳动价格的变动都往往与食品价格的变动相反。
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人性虽被确定是见异思迁,但以往的经验则表明人类其实是安土重迁的。
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