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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Adam Smith
Men, Desire, Sake
Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.393, Harriman House Limited

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Adam Smith
Men, Lovely, Desire
Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.56, Imprint Academic

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Adam Smith
Men, Giving, Desire
Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.102

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

Adam Smith
Desire, Principles, Graves
1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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