Adam Smith on Character
1723–1790 Scotland
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It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
That system, again, which makes virtue consist in prudence only, while it gives the highest encouragement to the habits of caution, vigilance, sobriety, and judicious moderation, seems to degrade equally both the amiable and respectable virtues, and to strip the former of all their beauty, and the latter of all their grandeur.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)