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Princes that be addicted to music increase the number of excellent musicians; if they be lovers of learning,
all men strive to excel in reading and in eloquence; if
given to martial exercises, a military ardor rouses straight
the drowsy sloth of all their subjects. Thus husbands
effeminately finical only teach their wives to paint and polish themselves with borrowed lustre. The studious of
pleasure render them immodest and whorish. On the other
side, men of serious, honest, and virtuous conversations
make sober, chaste, and prudent wives.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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