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Chapter the Seventh. ON PRUDENCE WITH REGARD 

 TO MEMBERS OF A HOUSEHOLD. 



* Remember that a family is held together, not by fear 

 or by love, but by mutual respect. 



* Love children, honour brothers ; parents and every 

 member of the family love or turn out of doors. 



Chapter the Eighth. ON PRUDENCE WITH REGARD TO 

 A WIFE. 



The care of a wife is before the care for wealth. A bad 

 wife makes the rich man wretched, but a good wife makes 

 the poor man happy. 



Do not marry a woman without moderate possessions. 



A woman loves or hates ; she has no middle humour. 



Never irritate a wife, but give her counsel. 



Do not marry one who is quarrelsome, she will not 

 obey you once. 



Take no wife from a witless family, or one infected by 

 a constitutional disease; you perpetuate sorrow by so 

 doing. 



Before other people, neither flatter your wife nor slight 

 her. 



* A woman left by herself thinks ; too much caressed, 

 suspects : therefore take heed. 



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