“Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer , book Parerga and Paralipomena

"Of Women"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism

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German philosopher 1788–1860

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