Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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