“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.”
“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”
“Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.”
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”
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