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ADAM SMITH

Love is an agreeable; resentment, a disagreeable passion; and accordingly we are not half so anxious that our friends should adopt our friendships, as that they should enter into our resentments. We can forgive them [if] they seem to be little affected with the favours which we may have received, but lose all patience if they seem indifferent about the injuries which may have been done to us […]

The agreeable passions of love and joy can satisfy and support the heart without any auxiliary pleasure. The bitter and painful [passions] of grief and resentment […] require the healing of sympathy.

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The “Theory of Moral Sentiments” and “Wealth of Nations” together encompass one single behavioral axiom that, broadly interpreted, is sufficient to characterize a major portion of the human social and cultural enterprise: it explains why human nature appears to be simultaneously self-regarding and other-regarding.

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