Bernard Mandeville
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Anglo-Dutch philosopher and satirist (1670 to 1733); author of The Fable of the Bees.
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Each person's vices, skilfully managed, serve the greatness and happiness of the whole (opens korrents.com)
“After that I show that those very vices, of every particular person, by skilful management, were made subservient to the grandeur and worldly happiness of the whole.”
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Few people understand themselves because writers teach what men should be, not what they are (opens korrents.com)
“One of the greatest reasons why so few people understand themselves, is, that most writers are always teaching men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.”
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Moral virtues were contrived by politicians, as the offspring of flattery working on pride (opens korrents.com)
“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…”
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Each person's vices, skilfully managed, serve the greatness and happiness of the whole (opens korrents.com)