Famous Quotes / Bernard Mandeville
10 Quotations by Bernard Mandeville
- 1. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue. It is built upon shame, a ...
- 2. Charity is that virtue by which part of that sincere love we have for ourselves is transferred pure ...
- 3. No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to den ...
- 4. No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to den ...
- 5. People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the po ...
- 6. The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty ...
- 7. The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re ...
- 8. There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no rea ...
- 9. There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes ...
- 10. We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic ...