I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter is and were it, I'd not do so. This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world outside, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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