Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.
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.
Если мы хорошо воспитаны, то не страдаем ни от каких ограничений в наших чувственных удовольствиях.
Волнение, вызываемое страхом, пропорционально не опасности, а нашему предчувствию беды, которой мы опасаемся, будь она реальна или воображаема.
В тот самый момент, когда зло перестало бы существовать, общество должно было прийти в упадок.
They put off hearings wilfully,
To finger the refreshing fee.
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.