In a word, she endures patiently the wrong-doing of others, and she is eager to atone for her own. This… — Jean Jacques Rousseau
In a word, she endures patiently the wrong-doing of others, and she is eager to atone for her own. This amiability is natural to her sex when unspoiled. Woman is made to submit to man and to endure even injustice at his hands. You will never bring young lads to this; their feelings rise in revolt against injustice; nature has not fitted them to put up with it.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
