 ... 9. Of the Vanity and Pride of Nations. Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions,...  The Spirit of Laws - Page 421by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1750Full view - About this book
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...of its com1nerce.* CHAP. * Fable of the hee«. CHAP. IX. Of the Vaniiy and Pride of Nationt. V AN1TY is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous....from the pride of certain nations, lazinefs, poverty and univerfal . negleS, the defiruSion of the nations which have accidentally fallen into their hands,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...only who drirc to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet. — Feneion. ' Vanity and pride of nations ; vanity is as ' advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. — Montesquieu. Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak. — Rochefoucauld.... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 pages
...encouraging a trifling turn I of mind, it continually increases the branches of its commerce.* 9. — Of the Vanity and Pride of Nations Vanity is as advantageous...is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts,... | |
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