Honoré de Balzac Quote

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of...

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of...

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of...

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of...