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Or widow that denied the thing he said ....|''Canterbury Tales'': The Wife of Bath's Tale, lines 1043-1050<ref>http://www.librarius.com/canttran/wftltrfs.htm</ref>}} | Or widow that denied the thing he said ....|''Canterbury Tales'': The Wife of Bath's Tale, lines 1043-1050<ref>http://www.librarius.com/canttran/wftltrfs.htm</ref>}} | ||
==1469-1527: Niccolò Machiavelli== | |||
{{Quote|"For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her. "|''The Prince''}} | |||
{{Quote|"It makes him (the ideal ruler) hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain. And when neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways."|''The Prince''}} | |||
{{Quote|"And in the first place we see how women have been the occasion of many divisions and calamities in States, and have wrought great harm to rulers; as when, according to our historian, the violence done to Lucretia drove the Tarquins from their kingdom, and that done to Virginia broke the power of the decemvirs. And among the chief causes which Aristotle assigns for the downfall of tyrants are the wrongs done by them to their subjects in respect of their women, whether by adultery, rape, or other like injury to their honour."|''Discourses on Livy''}} | |||
==1483–1546: Martin Luther== | ==1483–1546: Martin Luther== | ||
{{Quote|"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."}} | {{Quote|"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes."}} | ||