It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So, decide to raise them like men. The men will gladly consent to it! The more women want to resemble them, the less women will govern them, and then men will truly be the masters.

The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts, but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject. I love to amuse myself with trifles, by beginning a hundred things and never finishing one of them, by going or coming as I take either into my head, by changing my project at every instant, by following a fly through all its windings, in wishing to overturn a rock to see what is under it, by undertaking with ardor the work of ten years, and abandoning it without regret at the end of ten minutes; finally, in musing from morning until night without order or coherence, and in following in everything the caprice of a moment.

¡Qué manía en un ser tan efímero como el hombre ha de tener siempre fija la vista en un porvenir lejano que rara vez llega, y descuidar su presente, que es lo cierto!