“The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.”

—  Honoré de Balzac, book Physiology of Marriage

La vertu des femmes est peut-être une question de tempérament.
Part I, Meditation IV, aphorism XIX.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)

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