Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Author: Honore de Balzac

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The more one judges the less one loves.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night, or the last to awake in the morning.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Marriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.