When I Tried To Draw Near, You

Charity Degrades Those Who Receive It And Hardens Those Who Dispense It.

Vanity Is The Most Despotic And Iniquitous Of Masters, And I Can Never Be The Slave Of My Own Vices.

Sorrow Makes Us Very Good Or Very Bad.

Try To Keep Your Soul Young And Quivering Right Up To Old Age.

If They Are Ignorant, They Are Despised, If Learned, Mocked. In Love They Are Reduced To The Status Of Courtesans. As Wives They Are Treated More As Servants Than As Companions. Men Do Not Love Them: They Make Use Of Them, They Exploit Them, And Expect, In That Way, To Make Them Subject To The Law Of Fidelity.