“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
“Marry a good man, and bear good children.”
In response to his wife's question of what she should do if he died in battle, as he left for Thermopylae; as quoted in the "Sayings of the Spartan Women" http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Sayings_of_Spartan_Women*.html in the Moralia <br class="br">Variant translation: Marry a good man, and have good children.
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