Note 4 — Chapter XXXVIII · OF SELF-ESTEEM PIQUED[1]
Cecil N. Sidney Woolf translation
Every year there is more than one example of women abandoned just as vilely, and so I can pardon suspiciousness in respectable women. Mirabeau, Lettres à Sophie(21). Opinion is powerless in despotic countries: there is nothing solid but the friendship of the pasha.