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Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790Related quotes
“Every man dies, not every man really lives”
Source: Braveheart

“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Variant: All would live long, but none would be old.
Source: Gulliver's Travels

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”
Source: Resurrection

“By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.”
Economic harmonies, par. 4.110.

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.”
Nemo quam bene vivat sed quam diu curat, cum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivant, ut diu nulli.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXII: On the futility of half-way measures, Line 17.