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

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui devore tout: l'habitude.

Honoré de Balzac

Physiologie du Mariage

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Relationship challenges Marriage

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

Physiologie du Mariage

Language

French

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. Physiologie du mariage [Physiology of Marriage]. Paris, 1829, pt. 1, meditation 5, no. 47.

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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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Lucretia Mott
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1849 1840s 19th century
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Mott, Lucretia. "Discourse on Woman." 17 Dec. 1849, Philadelphia's Assembly Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecture.

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

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Source
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Language
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Time
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.