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“No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.”

Men Evil Speak Marriage Greater Wise Wife Judging Endure Greater Good

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.”

Men Greater Wife Fields Profit Graves Buried

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.”

Ifs Beautiful Mistake Greater Wife Husband Commit Virtuous Mistress Blunders She Is Beautiful

Author:Honore de Balzac

“If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.”

Ifs Home Greater Wife Cheerful Lure Waitress Taverns

Author:Phyllis Schlafly