The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld