"I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands."

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Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

— Martial