“Women resist in order to be conquered.”

Act IV., Scene IV. — (Il Quercivola.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 388.
L’Alessandro (1544)

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Contrastan le donne per esser vinte.

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Italian writer and philosopher 1508–1579

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