"There are many examples of women that have……" — Bernard de Mandeville
"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 or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery."
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Bernard de Mandeville
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11 Quotes by Bernard de Mandeville
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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women…
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for…
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a…
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion.…
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If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what…
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The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women,…
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Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments…
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