No man chooses evil because it is evil;... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Men

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Authority Being

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their 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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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