A quotation from Jean Racine

The reason why the Cardinal [Mazarin] deferred so long to grant the favors he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude.
 
[La raison pourquoi le Cardinal différoit tant à accorder les grâces qu’il avoit promises, c’est qu’il étoit persuadé que l’espérance est bien plus capable de retenir les hommes dans le devoir que non pas la reconnoissance.]

Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
Fragments Historiques [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]

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The reason why the Cardinal [Mazarin] deferred so long to grant the favors he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude. [La raison pourquoi le Cardinal différoit tant à accorder les grâces qu’il avoit promises, c’est…

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