286. (15) They are adopted for the sake of their reputation outside the home. The fortunes of men depend for the most part on their reputation for being just, honest and upright; and this reputation in turn depends on the wife, who knows her husband's private life. Consequently, if differences between their minds were to break out into open displays of enmity, quarreling and rancorous threats, and if these were to be made publicly known by the wife and her friends, or by the domestic help, they would easily be turned into reasons for condemnation that would bring dishonor and disgrace to his name. To avoid such eventualities, a man has no other recourse but to either simulate favor toward his wife or separate from her so that they no longer live in the same house.