 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 ページ
...benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their selflove in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for...them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning... | |
 | Wilfried Ver Eecke - 2008 - 302 ページ
...only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. (Smith, 14) Adam Smith summarizes his argument rhetorically in his famous quote: "It is not from the... | |
 | Dennis Carl Rasmussen - 2010 - 208 ページ
...situation "will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them" (WN I.ii.2, 26; see also ED, 571). This last sentence recalls the second passage from Rousseau's Discourse... | |
| |
But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their... 
