Quotes by Bernard Mandeville
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There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek ...
bernard mandeville
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or ...
bernard mandeville
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in ...
bernard mandeville
If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor ...
bernard mandeville
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor ...
bernard mandeville
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or ...
bernard mandeville
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
bernard mandeville
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early ...
