If a man strike his mistress it is a self-inflicted wound; but if he strike his wife it is suicide![Qu’un homme batte sa maîtresse… c’est une blessure; mais sa femme!… c’est un suicide.]
Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part II. Means of Defence, Interior and Exterior, Meditation X. A Treatise on Marital Policy, Aphorism LXI, Page 119
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