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Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.

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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two.

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Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart.

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It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.

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Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women.

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Women are extremists: they are either better or worse than men.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère
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Born: August 16, 1645
Died: May 11, 1696 (aged 50)
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