“Men ought not then to be overhasty in getting married; on the contrary, they should come to it with much precaution.”

“Men ought not then to be overhasty in getting married; on the contrary, they should come to it with much precaution.”

And then he indulges in five octavo pages against matrimony and woman in general. ↩

See Macchiavelli’s story of “Belfagor,” wherein Minos and Rhadamanthus, and the rest of the infernal judges, are greatly surprised to hear an infinite number of condemned souls “lament nothing so bitterly as their folly in having taken wives, attributing to them the whole of their misfortune.” ↩