"In our monogamous part of the world,..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.”
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
“It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.”
More on Marriage
“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”
“Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.”
“LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.”
More on Relationships
“When love is not accepted move on;when love is not appreciated walk away;hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.”
“All through the years of our youthNeither could have knownTheir own thought from the other's,We were so much at one.”
“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”