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“Le donne sono fatte così. Ogni giorno che sorge porta loro una nuova interpretazione del passato. Dev'essere una vita poco monotona la loro.”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
― Moliere

“Necessity first debauch'd me, and Poverty made me a Whore at the Beginning; so excess of Avarice for getting Money, and Excess of Vanity, continued me in the crime”
― Daniel Defoe, Roxana

“If Pride will not turn the Brain, nothing can.”
― Daniel Defoe, Roxana

“Unhappy wretch... shall my ill-got Wealth, the Product of prosperous Lust, and of a vile and vicious Life of Whoredom and Adultery, be intermingled with the honest well-gotten Estate of this innocent gentleman, to be a Moth and a Caterpiller among it, and bring the Judgments of Heaven upon him, and upon what he has, for my sake!”
― Daniel Defoe, Roxana

“Tis most evident and plain, that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive and vertuous mistress.”
― Aphra Behn, Two Tales: The Royal Slave and The Fair Jilt