“ The more people there are in a nation who need to deal with each other and not cause displeasure, the more politeness there is. But we should be distinguished from barbarous peoples more by the politeness of mores than by that of manners.
In a nation where each man in his own way would take part in the administration of the state, the women should scarcely live among men. ”
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation