Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics,… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day;… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image