hitopadesa (hindu writings) 500 bc "idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness" euripides 480bc -405bc a woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing tertullian 160-240ad a woman's appearence depends upon two things, the clothes she wears and the time she gives to her toilet, against the 1st we bring the charge of ostentation, against the 2nd of harlotry jesus ben sira 200sbc from a woman was the beginning of sin, and because of her we all die publius pomponius secundus 50 ad hadrian: what is a woman? secundus: man's damnation, an insatiable beast, a ceaseless fight, a continual solication, the shipwreck of man's virtue, the manacles of the human race petronius 66ad a wife is a burden imposed by law menander 342-291bc nothing is worse than a woman, even a good one juvenal 60-140ad nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman may the gods save us from a learned wife hesiod 700sbc zeus who thunders on high made woman to be an evil to moral men, with a nature to do do evil. and he gave them a second evil to be the price for the good they had, whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years claudius galen 130-200ad every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster antiphanes 388-311 bc i trust only one thing in a woman, that she will not come back to life again after she is dead, to all other things i distrust her
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