"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace."
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Source: Friedrich Schiller (1871). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical and Dramatic”, p.318
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