Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Marriage
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
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If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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