Men 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.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.