"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of our existence. The man who has lived most i…"

"The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him."

"A woman's entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honored by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, …"

"The greatest danger for a woman is to be too beautiful."

"It is only the greatest crimes that need to be hidden."