Women of the world crave excitement.
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness