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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not..."

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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