“There is no saying without a double meaning”
“What is strength without a double share of wisdom?”
“You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."Madness doubled is marriageI addedwhen the caustic was cool, not intending to producea golden rule.”
“Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”
“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.”
“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”