Plutarch Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Divorce, Shoes

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.519, Modern Library

• 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.

  Plutarch

  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.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Done, Bed

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

• 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.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Trials, Cases

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

  Plutarch

  Wife, Said, Very Happy

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

• Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Caesar's Wife, Should

• 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

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