Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
The egotism of woman is always for two.
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.