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Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
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“The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable.”
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in J. de Finod (ed.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1902) p. 33
“Constraint is the mother of desires.”
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in J. de Finod (1902) p. 90
“A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport.”
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in J. de Finod (1902) p. 135