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Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Plutarch
Husband, Men, Wife

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

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Wife, Said, Very Happy
"On the Tranquillity of the Mind". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.

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Wife, Trials, Cases

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

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Men, Wife, Sparta

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.

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Wife, Done, Bed
Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.606

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Plutarch
Wife, Caesar's Wife, Should

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