I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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I beheld the wretchthe miserable monster whom I had created.
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From my birth I have aspired like the eagle but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed.... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.
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It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind.
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