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 WOLLSTONECRAFTEither nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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The beginning is always today.
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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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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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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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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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