"Darkness always tries to hide the truth!"
- Seth Adam Smith
"Truth is the greatest strength we have against the darkness."
"Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts ..."
- Adam Smith
"The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not..."
"Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort of ..."
"In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence."
"Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary."
"The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always f..."
"Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons."
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."