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Women should be held in dependence, for reason cannot procure for them in their old age an empire that beauty did not give them even in youth.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Author
Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
Topic
youth
beauty
Date
1748
Language
English
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"Women should be held in dependence, for reason cannot procure for them in their old age an empire that beauty did not give them even in youth." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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