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They burn him up like fuel in the fire."|''Jataka 263'' <ref>https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/jataka-tales-english/d/doc80427.html#note-e-46383</ref>}} | They burn him up like fuel in the fire."|''Jataka 263'' <ref>https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/jataka-tales-english/d/doc80427.html#note-e-46383</ref>}} | ||
==254-184 BC: Titus Maccius Plautus== | ==254-184 BC: Titus Maccius Plautus== | ||
{{Quote|There's no such thing as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness. (Nam | {{Quote|There's no such thing as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness. (Nam optima nulla potest eligi; Alia alia pejor est.)|Plautus, Aulularia}} | ||
==234–149 BC: Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)== | ==234–149 BC: Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)== | ||
{{Quote|Give the reins to a headstrong nature, to a creature that has not been tamed, and then hope that they will themselves set bounds to their licence if you do not do it yourselves. This is the smallest of those restrictions which have been imposed upon women by ancestral custom or by laws, and which they submit to with such impatience. What they really want is unrestricted freedom, or to speak the truth, licence, and if they win on this occasion what is there that they will not attempt?|Livy, ''The Early History of Rome'' <ref>https://files.romanroadsstatic.com/materials/romans/historians/Livy_Early_History_Rome_1-0.pdf</ref>}} | {{Quote|Give the reins to a headstrong nature, to a creature that has not been tamed, and then hope that they will themselves set bounds to their licence if you do not do it yourselves. This is the smallest of those restrictions which have been imposed upon women by ancestral custom or by laws, and which they submit to with such impatience. What they really want is unrestricted freedom, or to speak the truth, licence, and if they win on this occasion what is there that they will not attempt?|Livy, ''The Early History of Rome'' <ref>https://files.romanroadsstatic.com/materials/romans/historians/Livy_Early_History_Rome_1-0.pdf</ref>}} | ||