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- For those who were the most virtuous and pious, he chose out princesses, that all might desire virtue and chastity. He was content with one or two wives for himself, and disapproved of having many children, saying: to have many children is fitting for the populace, but kings and nobles take pride in the smallness of their families (en)
- Each man according to his means contracts many or few marriages, whence their affection, divided as it is among various objects, grows cold. (en)
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