We Seldom Call Anybody Lazy, But Such

If Courtezans And Strumpets Were To Be Prosecuted With As Much Rigour As Some Silly People Would Have It, What Locks Or Bars Would Be Sufficient To Preserve The Honour Of Our Wives And Daughters?

Knowledge Both Enlarges And Multiplies Our Desires, And The Fewer Things A Man Wishes For, The More Easily His Necessities May Be Supply'd.

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.

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.

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.