Honoré de Balzac - Marriage Quotes

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Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Nothing proves better the necessity of an indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion.

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Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, — habit.

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Marriage is a treaty in which the conditions should be mutual.

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Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.

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Marriage often unites for life two people who scarcely know each other.

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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