Date: 1759

"Justice, the last and greatest of the four cardinal virtues, took place, according to this system, when each of those three faculties of the mind, confined itself to it's proper office, without attempting to encroach upon that of any other; when reason directed and passion obeyed, and when each ...

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1759

"In the system of Plato the soul is considered as something like a little state or republic, composed of three different faculties or orders."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1759

"This faculty Plato called, as it is very properly called, reason, and considered it as what had a right to be the governing principle of the whole."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1759

"The different passions and appetites, the natural subjects of this ruling principle, but which are so apt to rebel against their master, he reduced to two different classes or orders."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1761

"But whatever may be the authority of this inferiour tribunal which is continually before their eyes, if at any time it should decide contrary to those principles and rules, which nature has established for regulating its judgments, men feel that they may appeal from this unjust decision, and cal...

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1761

"The applause of the whole world will avail but little if our own conscience condemn us; and the disapprobation of all mankind is not capable of oppressing us, when we are absolved by the tribunal within our own breast, and when our mind tells us that mankind are in the wrong."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1761

"But though this tribunal within the breast be thus the supreme arbiter of all our action, though it can reverse the decisions of all mankind with regard to our character and conduct, and mortify us amidst the applause or support us under the censure of the world; yet, if we enquire into the orig...

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1761

"In order to defend ourselves from such partial judgments, we soon learn to set up in our own minds a judge between ourselves and those we live with."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1761

"Such persons are not accustomed to consult the judge within concerning the opinion which they ought to form of their own conduct."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1761

"This inmate of the breast, this abstract man, the representative of mankind, and substitute of the Deity, whom nature has constituted the supreme judge of all their actions is seldom appealed to by them."

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)