Translations
If you kiss your child, or your wife, say that you only kiss things which are human,Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
if you embrace your child, or your wife, that you embrace a mortal,Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
If you are kissing your child or wife, say that it is a human being whom you are kissing,George Long (1890)
If you kiss your child or your wife, say to yourself that you are kissing a human being,Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)