On Women - by Arthur Schopenhauer

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These few words of Jouy, Sans les femmes le commencement de notre vie seroit privé de secours, le milieu de plaisirs et la fin de consolation, more exactly express, in my opinion, the true praise of woman than Schiller’s poem, Würde der Frauen, which is the fruit of much careful thought and impressive because of its antithesis and use of contrast. The same thing is more pathetically expressed by Byron in Sardanapalus, Act i, Sc. 2:— “The very first Of human life must spring from woman’s breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench’d by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman’s hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.” Both passages show the right point of view for the appreciation of women. One need only look at a woman’s shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by

On Women - by Arthur Schopenhauer On Women. by Arthur Schopenhauer These few words of Jouy, Sans les femmes le commencement de notre vie seroit priv� de secours, le milieu de plaisirs et la fin de consolation , more exactly express, in my opinion, the true praise of woman than Schiller’s poem, W�rde der Frauen , which is the fruit of much careful thought and impressive because of its antithesis and use of contrast. The same thing is more pathetically expressed by Byron in Sardanapalus , Act i, Sc. 2:— “The very first Of human life must spring from woman’s breast, Your f

On Women - by Arthur Schopenhauer

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