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15. Not Coveting Another's Wife





  1. Those who know virtue's laws and marital rights
    never indulge in the folly of desiring another man's wife.

  2. Among those who stand outside virtue, there is no greater fool
    than he who stands with a lustful heart outside another's gate.

  3. No different from the dead are those who
    wickedly desire the wife of a friend.

  4. Though a man's measure be mountainous, what good is it
    if, without the minutest concern, he takes another's wife?

  5. A man who seduces another man's wife, knowing she is easy,
    suffers a shame that neither dies nor diminishes.

  6. Hatred, sin, fear and disgrace these four
    never forsake the man who commits adultery.

  7. He is decreed a worthy householder who holds
    no desire for the womanliness of another's wife.

  8. The chivalry that does not look upon another's wife
    is not mere virtue it is saintly conduct.

  9. In a world encircled by the awe some sea, to whom do good things
    belong? To men never impassioned to caress a married woman.

  10. Though a man deserts virtue and indulges in vice, he keeps
    some decency by not wanting another's wife's womanliness.

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