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| The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honour is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. | Bernard Mandeville | 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician |
| We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. | Bernard Mandeville | 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician |
| 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 bad according to the actions performed from that motive. | Bernard Mandeville | 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician |
| If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigour as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honour of our wives and daughters? | Bernard Mandeville | 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician |
| 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 at least the consequences of it. | Bernard Mandeville | 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician |
| 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. | Bernard Mandeville | 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician |
