“Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?”

Source: Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott / The Letter of the God of Love

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Italian French late medieval author 1365–1430

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