We pardon to the extent that we love.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.