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Perfecting Human Nature

Sep 8th, 2008 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File

“To feel much for others and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”

– Adam Smith (Scottish moral philosopher and political economist, 1723? - 1790)

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