Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape originally defined as abduction became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time to be not only use of but possession of or ownership.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Not what we experience but how we perceive what we experience determines...
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
In youth we learn in age we understand.