Is there a second-sight in love?
What answer can I give to that, I who have seen so many unions formed under celestial auspices only to be ruptured later, giving rise to hatreds that are well-nigh eternal, to repugnances that are unconquerable.

The senses sometimes harmonize while ideas are at variance; and some persons live more by their minds than by their bodies.

The contrary is also true; often minds agree and persons displease.

These phenomena, the varying and secret cause of many sorrows, show the wisdom of laws which give parents supreme power over the marriages of their children; for a young girl is often duped by one or other of these hallucinations.

Therefore I do not blame you.