... the planters began by stealing the liberty of their slaves, by stealing their labour, by stealing, in fact, all they had; and ...the natural result was that the slaves stole back all they could. So in the case of women. Reduced to the condition of dependency and with no other avenue for acquirement of success than the one which lies through their mastery or influence over the opposite sex, their natural powers to charm and seduce are, of course, reinforced by astuteness and trickery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommod...ate great and small.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have ar...ranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »