Women understand better than we do the art of analyzing the two human feelings, which alternately form their weapons of attack, or the weapons of which they are victims. They have the instinct of love, because it is their whole life, and of jealousy, because it is almost the only means by which they can control us.[La femme possède mieux que nous l’art d’analyser les deux sentiments humains dont elle s’arme contre nous ou dont elle est victime. Elles ont l’instinct de l’amour, parce qu’il est toute leur vie, et de la jalousie parce que c’est à peu près le seul moyen qu’elles aient de nous gouverner.]

Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part II. Means of Defence, Interior and Exterior, Meditation XVIII. Of Marital Revolutions, Page 200
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