Quotes by famous Tauruses
A lot of people of Taurus succeeded in life, played an important role both in politics and creating public opinion by writing. Below we present some of the most important authors’ quotes and wisdom.
Karl Marx
“Your favourite virtue … Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man … Strength
Your favourite virtue in woman … Weakness
Your chief characteristic … Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness … To fight
Your idea of misery … Submission
The vice you excuse most … Gullibility
The vice you detest most … Servility
Your aversion … Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation … Book-worming
Favourite poet … Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe
Favourite prose-writer … Diderot
Favourite hero … Spartacus, Kepler
Favourite heroine … Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe’s Faust]
Favourite flower … Daphne
Favourite colour … Red
Favourite name … Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish … Fish
Favourite maxim … Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me]
Favourite motto … De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted].”
(Marx’s replies to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura in 1865)
Honore de Balzac
“A marriage is an ability”
“So long as there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another a man can go on being happy with the same woman.”
“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
“The husband who leaves nothing to desire is a lost man “
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.”
“A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.”