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Bernard de Mandeville Quotes

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Bernard de Mandeville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: November 15, 1670 - January 21, 1733

Topics

Passion Quality Habit Seeds World

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Year Place New Possessions Years

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I Am Artist Photographer First Am

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

Art Name Violence You Television

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

Mercedes Lackey

Good War Ethics People Think Honor

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

Talking Person Room Only Like

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Health Insurance You Choose Keep

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship Beautiful True Friendship

My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time.

Great Time Moon Seeing Sailor Out

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Joseph Auslander

Men Peace World Living Thanksgiving

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

Walk Wife Free Sunglasses You Go

The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

God Together World Stand America

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