Frases de Bernard Mandeville

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“A doutrina econômica de Adam Smith é a doutrina de Mandeville apresentada de uma forma que não é mais paradoxal e literária, mas racional e científica.”

“Luxury
Employ'd 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 ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.”

“Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive;
Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive;
Millions endeavouring to supply
Each other's Lust and Vanity.”

“Private Vices by the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician may be turned into Publick Benefits.”

“Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.”