A child is an angel dependent on man

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

A child is an angel dependent on man

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.