“Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

The Story of a Country Town, Chapter 30 http://books.google.com/books?id=rbwEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Men+are+virtuous+because+the+women+are+women%22+%22virtuous+from+necessity%22&pg=PA353#v=onepage (1883).

As quoted in Essays on Freedom and Power, Introduction, p. xlvii (1949) https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Essays%20on%20Freedom%20and%20Power_3.pdf

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Chap 11.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)
Context: Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. My great predecessor, William Faulkner, speaking here, referred to it as a tragedy of universal fear so long sustained that there were no longer problems of the spirit, so that only the human heart in conflict with itself seemed worth writing about.
Faulkner, more than most men, was aware of human strength as well as of human weakness. He knew that the understanding and the resolution of fear are a large part of the writer's reason for being.
This is not new. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11