“Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.”
Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom
First Dialogue, Delmonce
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
“Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.”
"An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 294
The Fable of the Bees (1714)
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