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Woman and child

 

Friendship and marriage - The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

A male sickness - For the male sickness of self-contempt the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman.

The desire to become loved - Engaged people who have been brought together by convenience often strive to become loved, so as to do away with the reproach of acting out of cold, calculating utility. Those who have adopted christianity for the sake advantage likewise strive to become genuinely devout; it makes the religious pantomime easier for them.

Proteus nature - Women in love come to be just as they are in the image that the men by whom they are loved have of them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900