All sorts of thoughts filled my mind - how brightly my reputation had shone, and now how easily in an evil moment it had been dimmed or rather completely blotted out.
The bonds of matrimony, however honourable, still bear with them a necessary engagement, and I was very unwilling to be necessitated to love always a man who would perhaps not always love me.
I have long examined things, and have found that death is less dangerous than beauty.
The master key of knowledge is, indeed, a persistent and frequent questioning…By doubting we come to examine, and by examining we reach the truth.