Arthur Schopenhauer — "Women are the sexus sequior, the second sex in every respect, inferior to the fi…"

Women are the sexus sequior, the second sex in every respect, inferior to the first: we should therefore consider their weaknesses with some forbearance. It is because of these weaknesses that they are called the fair sex, for they are neither intellectual, nor moral, nor aesthetic, but only fair.
Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer Modern · Pessimist philosophy

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Date: 1851

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