One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will ever be precarious,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive;… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
