Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
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A selected quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
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Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two
Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with