“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.”
Vol. 2, Ch. 27, § 370
Variant translation: To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
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Source: Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time (1975), p. 76

Narrated Abu Musa Al-Ashari, in Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 46, Number 723
Sunni Hadith

“Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.”
Source: P.S. I Love You

“My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?”
As quoted in The Rich man and the Kingdom : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Protestant establishment (1995) by Albert F. Schenkel, p. 13