Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.