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.
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
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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.
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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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