A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman  

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A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman” is a dictum by Honoré de Balzac first published in The Physiology of Marriage (1829).

Original: Un homme ne peut pas se marier sans avoir étudié l'anatomie et disséqué une femme au moins

Dutch: Een man zou niet mogen trouwen zonder anatomie te hebben gestudeerd en ten minste onder het ontleedmes te hebben gehad

Notes

When reading Balzac's Preface to The Human Comedy (considered a Manifesto of Realism of some sort), it is obvious how much he was influenced by natural history, physiology and the science of anatomy. This is an integral part of realism in 19th century French literature.

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