Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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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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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
life
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye
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We are tomorrow's past.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason
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It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
people
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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