There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.