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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Advice Mindset One Liner
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Philosophy Truth Weakness
Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

End Life Necessary Price
All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Flower Rich Sacrifice Strength
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Nature Respect Violence
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Ignorance Philosophy Woman
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Passionate Reflection Solitude
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Liberty Politics Virtue Wisdom Woman
Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Time Woman
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason
It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Appearance Necessary Principle Search Simplicity
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Reason
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Devil Virtue
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment

I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.

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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.

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