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Quotes about “marriage” from Musonius Rufus
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Would not such a woman be a great help to the man who married her, an ornament to her relatives, and a good example for all who know her?
· Lecture 3Read passage Men who are not wantons or immoral are bound to consider sexual intercourse justified only when it occurs in marriage and is indulged in for the purpose of begetting children, since that is lawful, but unjust and unlawful when it is mere pleasure-seeking, even in marriage.
· Lecture 12Read passage That the primary end of marriage is community of life with a view to the procreation of children: The husband and wife, he used to say, should come together for the purpose of making a life in common and of procreating children, and furthermore of regarding all things in common between them, and nothing peculiar or private to one or the other, not even their own bodies.
· Lecture 13Read passage of philosophy? Again when someone said that marriage and living with a wife seemed to him a handicap to the pursuit of philosophy, Musonius said that it was no handicap to Pythagoras, nor to Socrates, nor to Crates, each of whom lived with a wife, and one could not mention better philosophers than these.
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