Top 35 Costanza Casati Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no peace for a woman with ambition.”

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2. “Lucky women never get past the envy of the gods.”

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3. “Maybe those men wouldn’t have done anything to Artemis.′ Clytemnestra says. ‘Maybe they just wanted to see her body. But have you ever heard of a man who stumbles upon a naked goddess and just walks away?”

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4. “Human lives are based on pain. But to have a few moments of happiness, lightning tearing the darkness of the sky, that is worth it.”

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5. “Listen to me,” Clytemnestra says. “Gods do not care about us. They have other concerns. That is why you should never live in the shadow of their anger. It is men you must fear. It is men who will be angry with you if you rise too high, if you are loved too much. The stronger you are, the more they will try to take you down.”

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6. “As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her better. Let her be hated forever.”

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7. “She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be.”

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8. “You were born free and you will always be free, no matter what others tell you. But you must see what it is around you and learn to bend it to your will before you are the one who is bent.”

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9. “There is nothing more powerful than a strong-willed woman. That is what you have always been and must be no matter what others do to you. It is easier for a man to be strong, for we are encouraged to be so. But for a woman to be unbent, unbroken, that is admirable.”

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10. “Every day you try to forget, but at night, you dream of the past. This is what dreams are for. To make us remember what we were, to tie us down to our memories, whether we like it or not.”

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11. “I’m saying that it is hard to find a man who is really strong. Strong enough not to desire to be stronger than you.”

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12. “Kings and heroes drop like flies, but queens outlive them all.”

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13. “One who risks nothing is nothing,’ Clytemnestra recited. It was something her father often said.”

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14. “Sometimes you have to make life difficult for others before they make it impossible for you.”

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15. “It is noble to be gentle, to save others from pain. But it is also dangerous. Sometimes you have to make life difficult for others before they make it impossible for you.”

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16. “But maybe this is how broken people keep living. They find someone as broken, fit them into the empty spaces of their hearts and, together, grow into something different.”

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17. “She knows that, in moments of pain, some words are spoken with a harshness that is not truly meant. But, even so, words can grow roots inside one’s heart. You can bury them, hoping they will wither and die, but roots keep finding something to latch on to.”

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18. “It is true what Tyndareus used to say, Clytemnestra muses. No matter how much kindness you show her, a slave will never learn to love you, for she has known too much pain.”

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19. “Spartan girls never cry, let alone for such a reason.”

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20. “Young men often lie with their companions’ he says. ‘Why shouldn’t women do the same?”

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21. “Men who find solace only in other men are to be distrusted.”

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22. “You can’t have justice and everyone’s approval.”

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23. “If Clytemnestra’s rage was a fire, Helen’s was a lamp; warm and thin in the darkness, but burning if you came too close.”

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24. “It is unwise to let a man who isn’t king sit on a throne for too long.”

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25. “Heroes like him are made of greed and cruelty: they take and take until the world around them is stripped of its beauty.”

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26. “Ambition, courage, distrust. You will be queens soon enough, and that is what you will need if you want to outlive the men who’ll wish to be rid of you.”

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27. “It hurts her to see that lies come easily to her now. Once it was decency, courage, goodness. But that was another lifetime.”

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28. “But nothing can ever stay the same. You can’t step twice into the same river.”

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29. “Is this what happens when one falls in love and marries? Clytemnestra wonders. Is this what a woman gives up? All her life, she has been taught courage, strength, resilience, but must those qualities be kept at bay with a husband?”

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30. “When vengeance calls and the gods stop watching, what happens to those who have touched the people I love?”

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31. “I have heard that some women can die of unhappiness.’ ‘That is untrue.”

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32. “She sees that her mother can be two different people and that the best version appears when her father isn’t around.”

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33. “She is reminded of Castor’s words, when they were little. When the tide recedes and leaves something on the sand, one mustn’t worry. Sooner or later the water will climb again and take it back.”

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34. “We are taught that marriage is the end of fun and childhood, but it is just the same. It is one of those things men say to make sure we feel responsible, while they can be children forever.”

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35. “He shakes his head. ‘Your father once told me that our life is nothing more than a fight among those who have the power, those who want it and the people who find themselves in the middle – casualties, sacrifices, call them whatever you want.”

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36. “We all do what we can with the gifts of the gods.”

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