Sublime

Love locally, trade globally.

our behavior is driven by an imaginary interaction with what he calls the impartial spectator—a

economics is the study of how to get the most out of life.

Goodness is an acquired taste.

Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.

When we earn the admiration of others honestly by being respectable, honorable, blameless, generous, and kind, the end result is true happiness.

Sometimes old-fashioned beats cutting-edge.

Hayek thought that extending the norms of the family to society at large would put us on the road to tyranny.