SAINT PIERRE, Bernardin de Quotes
(1737-1814), French author
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.
Party standards are the shadows in which patriotism is buried.
The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons, her to him as a slave. To religion alone do women owe the liberty they enjoy; and from the liberty of women that of nations has flowed, accompanied with the proscription of many inhuman usages diffused over other parts of the world; such as slavery, seraglios, and eunuchs.
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