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Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.
-Bernard De Mandeville
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Pride And Vanity Have Built More Hospitals

Bernard De Mandeville
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.
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Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. the pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. it wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
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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, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.
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