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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher
Call no man unhappy until he is married
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory
Love is often a fruit of marriage
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives
Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two
Bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her
To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman
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