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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.
Works and Days (-700)
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
Works and Days (-700)
From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.
Theogony (-700)
Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years.
Theogony (-700)
But what says the Greek? "In the morning of life, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray."
Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.
Theogony (-700)
Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage.
Works and Days (-700)
With caution choose the partner of your bed:
Whom fifteen springs have crown'd, a virgin wed.
Let prudence now direct your choice; a wife
Is or a blessing, or a curse, in life;
Her father, mother, know, relations, friends,
For on her education much depends.