It is not sufficient in
those conquests to let the conquered nation enjoy their own laws; it is,
perhaps, more necessary to leave them also their manners, because people
in general have a stronger attachment to these than to their laws.
The French have been driven nine times out of Italy, because, as
historians say,
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of their insolent familiarities with the fair sex. It
is too much for a nation to be obliged to bear not only with the pride
of conquerors, but with their incontinence and indiscretion; these are,
without doubt, most grievous and intolerable, as they are the source of
infinite outrages.
