Bernard de Mandeville Citas

• Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Pride, Vanity, Together

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

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• They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

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  Art, Animal, Men

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.1, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

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  Men, Wish, Desire

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.154, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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 the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

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  Corazón, Hombres, Deseo

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark T, p. 262, 1732.

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• The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.

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  Men, Numbers, Ambitious

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

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  Want, Cures, Prudence

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.101, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  Lazy, Laziness, Inferiors

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark V, p. 267, 1732.

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• No hay hábito o cualidad que se adquiera más fácilmente que la hipocresía, ni cosa que se aprenda más pronto que negar los sentimientos de nuestro corazón y el principio por el que actuamos: pero las semillas de cada pasión son innatas en nosotros, y nadie viene al mundo sin ellas.

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  Passion, Heart, Hypocrite

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.

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• 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.

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  Nature, Passion, May

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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 be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

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  Honestidad, Hombres, Personas

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.

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• Si, dejando a un lado toda la grandeza mundana y la gloria vana, me preguntaran dónde creía que era más probable que los hombres disfrutaran de la verdadera felicidad, preferiría una sociedad pequeña y pacífica, en la que los hombres, ni envidiados ni estimados por sus vecinos, se contentaran con vivir del producto natural del lugar que habitan, a una vasta multitud rebosante de riqueza y poder, que siempre estuviera conquistando a otros con sus armas en el extranjero y corrompiéndose con el lujo extranjero en casa.

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  Home, Greatness, Men

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.4, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No hay valor intrínseco en el dinero sino el que se altera con los tiempos, y si una guinea se vende por veinte libras o por un chelín, es el trabajo de los pobres y no el valor alto o bajo que se fija en el oro o la plata, de donde deben surgir todas las comodidades de la vida.

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  Money, Gold, Twenties

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 345, 1732.

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• No creo que haya una criatura humana en su sano juicio, llegada a la madurez, que en algún momento u otro no se haya dejado llevar por esta pasión (sc. envidia) en serio; sin embargo, nunca conocí a nadie que se atreviera a admitir que era culpable de ella sino en broma.

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  Believe, Passion, Maturity

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• Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  People, Beef, Alive

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.

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• The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor 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.

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  Patience, Opposites, Honor

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark R, p. 245, 1732.

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• Si los cortesanos y las rameras fueran perseguidos con tanto rigor como algunos tontos quieren, ¿qué candados o barras serían suficientes para preservar el honor de nuestras esposas e hijas?

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  Daughter, Silly, Wife

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hay muchos ejemplos de mujeres que han destacado en el aprendizaje, e incluso en la guerra, pero esto no es motivo para que las eduquemos a todas en latín y griego o en disciplina militar, en lugar de en labores de aguja y ama de casa.

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  Military, War, Latin

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.

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  Pride, Men, Political

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

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  Pride, Names, Quality

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag

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• La gente de sustancia puede pecar sin ser expuesta por su placer robado; pero los sirvientes y la clase más pobre de mujeres rara vez tienen oportunidad de ocultar una gran barriga, o al menos las consecuencias de ella.

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  Opportunity, People, Substance

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark C, p. 66, 1732.

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• What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Hurt, Silly, Two

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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 instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

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  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.

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  Faith, Children, Feelings

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