The interest of a husband as much as his honor forbids him to indulge a pleasure which he has not had the skill to make his wife desire.[L’intérêt d’un mari lui prescrit au moins autant que l’honneur de ne jamais se permettre un plaisir qu’il n’ait eu le talent de faire désirer par sa femme.]

Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part I. A General Consideration, Meditation V. Of the Predestined, Aphorism XXXIII, Page 63
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