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196 Men of virtue, from the vicious; Wives, from creatures meretricious.

Yet, after all:

"Instruction has value only for him who grasps what has been said once. But you are like a stone—brainless, immovable. Why waste effort to instruct you? More than that, O fool! it is a mistake even to live beside you. A disaster might some day befall me from mere association with you. As the proverb says:

"Indeed, there is wisdom in the old story:

Two birds were we. I and the other One father had; we had one mother.