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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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