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"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
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"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."
"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test."
"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."
"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."
"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."
"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason."
"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."
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
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