Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
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.