Marry a good man, and bear good children.

 

Marry a good man, and bear good children.
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In response to his wife's question of what she should do if he died in battle, as he left for Thermopylae; as quoted in the "Sayings of the Spartan Women" in the Moralia
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Variant translation: Marry a good man, and have good children.

 

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