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

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

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

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

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

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