France, Writer April 17, 1781 – 1844.
Aimé Martin was a French writer. Born in Lyon, he moved to Paris, where he became the pupil and friend of Bernardin de St. Pierre: he collected his works and married his widow. Martin's letters to Sophia on Natural History were highly popular.
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
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