No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Read Summary
Virtue can only flourish among equals. Read Summary
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Read Summary
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Read Summary
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. Read Summary
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. Read Summary
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? Read Summary
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. Read Summary
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? Read Summary
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. Read Summary