It Is High Time That We Had

If They Are Ignorant, They Are Despised, If Learned, Mocked. In Love They Are Reduced To The Status Of Courtesans. As Wives They Are Treated More As Servants Than As Companions. Men Do Not Love Them: They Make Use Of Them, They Exploit Them, And Expect, In That Way, To Make Them Subject To The Law Of Fidelity.

Nowadays It Seems That Moral Education Is No Longer Considered Necessary. Attention Is Wholly Centered On Intelligence, While The Heart Life Is Ignored.

The More You Lose The Right To Be Jealous, The More So You Become!

Nature Has Not Changed. The Night Is Still Unsullied, The Stars Still Twinkle, And The Wild Thyme Smells As Sweetly Now As It Did Then ... We May Be Afflicted And Unhappy, But No One Can Take From Us The Sweet Delight Which Is Nature's Gift To Those Who Love Her And Her Poetry.

These Tears Do Me Good, They Have Watered The Parched Place; Perhaps My Heart Will Grow Again There!