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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

too is really to acquire the art and expe|rience of war and government, and to be|come really fit to be a general or a states|man. And in the same manner if you would be reckoned sober, temperate, just and equitable, the best way of acquiring this reputation is to become sober, tempe|rate, just and equitable. If you can really render yourself amiable, respectable, and the proper object of esteem, there is no fear of your not soon acquiring the love, the respect and esteem of those you live with.
Since the practice of virtue, there|fore, is in general so advantageous, and that of vice so contrary to our interest, the con|sideration of those opposite tendencies un|doubtedly stamps an additional beauty and propriety upon the one, and a new deformity and impropriety upon the other. Tempe|rance, magnanimity, justice and beneficence, come thus to be approved of, not only under their proper characters, but under the addi|tional character of the highest wisdom and most real prudence. And in the same man|ner the contrary vices of intemperance, pu|silanimity, injustice, and either malevolence or sordid selfishness come to be disapproved of, not only under their proper characters,
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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