Daniela María

“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“In all governments accordingly, even in monarchies, the highest offices are generally possessed, and the whole detail of the administration conducted, by men who were educated in the middle and inferior ranks of life, who have been carried forward by their own industry and abilities, though loaded with the jealousy, and opposed by the resentment, of all those who were born their superiors, and to whom the great, after having regarded them first with contempt, and afterwards with envy, are at last contented to truckle with the same abject meanness with which they desire that the rest of mankind should behave to themselves.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“¿Entristecer con mi presencia su felicidad, ser un reproche, marchitar las flores que se puso en los cabellos para ir al altar? ¡Jamás, jamás! ¡Que su cielo sea sereno, que su sonrisa sea clara! Yo te bendigo por el instante de alegría que diste al transeúnte melancólico, extraño, solitario… ¡Dios mío! ¿Un instante de felicidad no es suficiente para toda una vida?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments