“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.