One good Man may take anothers Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nat — Bernard Mandeville

"Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise; Flatterd in Peace, and feard in Wars, They were th Esteem of Foreigners, And lavish of their Wealth and Lives, The Balance of all other Hives."

"They put off hearings wilfully, To finger the refreshing fee."

"The worst of all the Multitude Did something for the Common Good."

"Luxury Employd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress, That strange ridiclous Vice, was made The very Wheel that turnd the Trade."

"Thus Vice nursd Ingenuity, Which joind with Time and Industry, Had carryd Lifes Conveniences, Its real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease, To such a Height, the very Poor Livd better than the Rich before."

"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."