Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.