All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.