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Niccolò Machiavelli on Women

1469–1527 Italy

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Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

The Mandrake (1524)

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