3 Quotes Tagged: mistreatment

The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable. Then, monsieur, I would resist as far as my strength permitted; when that strength failed I should be sure of a refuge. Death would certainly screen me both from bad laws and their consequences.