Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

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Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

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