“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”– George Eliot Related Quotes “According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.”– John Buchanan Robinson “When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”– George MacDonald “Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”– Xenophon