The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.
Stefan Zweig
Nothing makes you madder than wanting to defend yourself against something you can't even get hold of, something the human race is doing to you, but still there's nobody you can grab by the throat.
race
Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise.
rights
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
fate deeds
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
fate
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.
results harmony
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.
grace
Inevitably, in the secret chemistry of the emotions the feeling of pity for a sick person is imperceptibly bound up with tenderness.
emotions
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.
anger
wedding
To the young, what can be more disturbing, what more unsettling and tantalizing, than the play of vague suspicions? The fancy, ceasing to wander in the void, concentrates upon a definite aim, and luxuriates in the febrile pleasures of the chase.
chase
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
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